Jurgen Klopp has confirmed that James Milner and Bobby Firmino will miss the next ‘couple of games’ with the pair currently sidelined with injury.
The former was sent off during the first half of last night’s League Cup clash with Manchester City for a suspected hamstring strain, while the Brazilian striker was not involved at all due to a calf injury. .
“Millie hasn’t improved since then, she’s out for a couple of games,” Klopp said (quoted by Liverpoolfc.com). “Same for Bobby.
“Bobby, he’s like that, he’s already on the better side, even when he was just a few days ago, but it’s not a big thing, so we’ll see it day by day with him.”
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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain turned up at half time against Pep Guardiola’s side at the Etihad and made a decent impact as he played a huge role in setting up Mo Salah’s equaliser.
Klopp confirmed that the former Arsenal man had been ill recently and also commented on the current situation regarding Trent Alexander-Arnold.
“Ox is fine, Ox was sick, like Trent, some of the staff too,” added the German. “That’s why we have to be careful right now, absolutely, like everybody, I think he’s hanging around.
“That makes the planning really difficult for the next game because we were 100% clear about what we wanted to do against City and then you have to change quite a bit at the last second, that’s not good, but it’s the situation and that could happen against the Aston”. Villa as well, so we have to be flexible, stay flexible.
“Other than that, Virg has now obviously trained completely normal, so he’ll be there. Trent, hopefully, will be better; he was not part of the whole session but of parts, let’s see how that develops until tomorrow. That’s it.”
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