Just a few weeks ago, it was put to Jurgen Klopp that Liverpool were on the verge of having the majority of their unavailable players back from injury.
Inevitably, such a reality never came to fruition as further setbacks soon reared their head.
After seeing both Dominik Szoboszlai and Thiago Alcantara rejoin the Reds’ injury list earlier this month, the German made light of the quickly out-of-date aforementioned questions when previewing Liverpool’s trip to Burnley.
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“I’m not sure if it was two or three weeks ago when we sat here and we were talking about the luxury problem of lining up players,” Klopp said ahead of facing Burnley last weekend following his side’s then-latest setbacks. “If anybody asks me that question again, I will kick them out of the room!”
Little over a week later and the Reds’ injury woes have got much worse. First, Trent Alexander-Arnold aggravated a previous knee injury against the Clarets and was forced off at half-time in 3-1 win, while Ryan Gravenberch was left as an unused substitute after feeling something in the warm-up. Meanwhile, Alisson Becker and Joe Gomez both missed the game through illness.
While the latter three would all report for training in the week, it was confirmed that Alexander-Arnold would be ruled out until after the League Cup final. And then on Friday, Alisson suffered a hamstring injury in training which would rule him out once more.
Travelling to Brentford without the Brazilian, Klopp saw three more players struck down by half-time as Curtis Jones,
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