Jurgen Klopp’s side secured a 5-1 win in the Europa League and boosted their chances for the quarterfinals.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp gives an injury update on centre-back Ibrahima Konate. He will be sent for further assessment after coming off injured in the Europa League. The Reds beat Sparta Prague 5-1 in the Europa League’s last-16 first-leg on Thursday evening.
The Merseyside club coach spoke to the media after the game and said, “We don’t know [yet]. Ibou said to me when he passed me in that moment, ‘I thought if I do another sprint then it could be bad.’ So, he said he should be fine, but we don’t know.”
Joe Gomez was also taken off at halftime for Conor Bradley, but Klopp confirmed that his switch was pre-planned: “Joey is fine. We took him off, he played a lot of games so that was more rotation, precaution. Now let’s see what is with Ibou.”
Klopp also added on the game and said, “So, the result is much better than the performance, that’s true. Sparta played a good game; Sparta took some risks in our possession, they [were] hiding wingers slightly [and] our protection was not good, so they could create these counter-attacks. We lost a few unnecessary balls, which is then difficult to protect, but in other moments we should have done better.
“[They] took risks, we punished them for that in other moments, we scored wonderful goals, we had good moments in the game, really good moments in the game and we are not like that, that we think coming here is a walk in the park.
“It obviously was not a walk in the park, we had to work a lot, but we did not expect an easy game and it was not. But it was a good result and now we fly home, recover and in seven days we meet again.”
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