Jurgen Klopp gives an update on Fabio Carvalho injury
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Liverpool are dealing with a serious injury crisis in the midfield department.

The Portuguese midfielder was subbed off at the start of second-half after a hard challenge from Amadou Onana in the 38th minute.

Klopp said: “It’s not bad. I think it is extremely painful, it is a dead leg on the muscle above the knee and he couldn’t bend the knee anymore. When this muscle swells up, there is no space for anything else.”

“We have to now see how quickly that will settle. You could see he tried, but you could see he couldn’t run properly. We just waited for half-time and then made the change with Bobby.”

He also explained why he was limiting Trent Alexander-Arnold’s minutes on the pitch.

“We have to manage his game time,” said Klopp in his post-match press conference. “Where can we change at the moment? We have players coming in and coming back.

“Arthur [Melo] is now here and will be very important for us, but he didn’t play football for a long, long time and yesterday he played a rondo with us. We thought until last night he wouldn’t be available, it wasn’t the plan to bring him.

“So who do we have on the bench? Millie [James Milner] can play in midfield and both full-back positions and we just thought like the last game that it made sense to bring the fresh legs there, that’s why we decided like this.”

 

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