Klopp gives update on Liverpool’s walking wounded: Salah, Jota, Curtis, Alisson…

The Reds welcome Luton to Anfield on Wednesday then face Chelsea in the EFL Carabao Cup final with injuries mounting.

Jürgen Klopp sent out an unequivocal message regarding Liverpool’s casualty list which continues to grow - not an ideal situation to be in with a domestic cup final looming: “As long as we have 11 players, we will go for it and that’s exactly the idea.  We’ll deal with it, without excuses. There are 5,000 ways to win a football match and we only need to find one”.

There are currently 10 players in Liverpool’s sickbay - all nursing different ailments of varying degrees of severity. Most of them won’t make the list for Wednesday’s league game against Luton. Klopp is hoping that perhaps one or two might recover in time for Sunday’s EFL Carabao Cup final against Chelsea at Wembley - the team’s first shot at silverware this season.

First choice keeper Alisson was laid low with flu then tweaked a hamstring in training which meant he missed the team’s last game, against Brentford at the weekend. Liverpool’s injury woes piled up during that game with Darwin Núñez taken off as a precaution, Curtis Jones retiring with an ankle injury and worst of all, Diogo Jota carried off on a stretcher after the full weight of Brentford’s Christian Norgaard fell on his knee.

At the end of the game, it was reported that Mohamed Salah, playing his first game back after spending 25 days out with a hamstring injury, “felt some discomfort” and may have aggravated his condition or suffered a relapse.

Klopp confirmed this afternoon that Alisson, Curtis Jones, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Dominik Szoboszlai and Jota as well his other long-term casualties (Joel Matip, Thiago and Stefan Bajcetic) will play no part in either tomorrow’s league game