Jurgen Klopp provided an update on both Darwin Nuñez and Mohamed Salah, as Liverpool beat Luton Town 4-1 on Wednesday night.
The Reds produced a wonderful second-half comeback to run out cosy winners at Anfield, as Klopp used to be pressured to subject his youngest starting XI in the Premier League for the reason that 2018 amid a slew of injuries.
Liverpool have as many as eleven first-team stars unavailable through injury, with Nuñez and Salah among those who were left out of the squad totally for the mid-week clash.
Both forwards scored in the 4-1 win over Brentford closing Saturday, however Nuñez was substituted at half-time with a complaint, whilst there have been reports that Salah — solely just returning from a hamstring tear — had aggravated his old issue.
In his pre-match press convention beforehand of Luton, Klopp admitted that each players were being monitored ‘day by day’, raising serious questions over their health for Sunday’s Carabao Cup closing towards Chelsea.
Asked about the absent duo in advance of kick off, Klopp regarded to admit that their absence wasn’t certainly pre-cautionary.
“They couldn’t have played tonight,” Klopp instructed Sky Sports’ Juliette Ferrington.
“From right here we will see who will be again for Sunday, but that is now not vital at the moment.”
In the give up neither player was wanted for the victory over the Hatters, with all three of the Reds’ beginning attackers (Luis Diaz, Cody Gakpo and Harvey Elliott) getting on the scoresheet in a morale-boosting display.
Speaking after Wednesday night’s clash, Klopp admitted the injury scenario is ‘not great’ and re-iterated that they can solely ‘go by way of day’ in advance of the Carabao Cup final and other upcoming games
He said: “The state of affairs is now not great, certainly not, we don’t have to make that now nicer than it is. I’m so happy that all the youngsters came on and played, Dannsy [Jayden Danns] said 50 times, ‘Thank you, boss!’ I’m so comfortable that I could give him that opportunity, the boys deserve it.
“But needless to say for us there are now a lot of super-important games coming up, and we don’t know, we go day by day. I cannot say whatever about it and I don’t know. But after Brentford I had no clue the scenario would be like it used to be now. So, let’s see.
“There’s one phrase that stands: as lengthy as we have 11, we will go for it. That’s all I can promise.”
In addition to Nuñez and Salah, Liverpool are currently besides Thiago Alcantara, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Stefan Bajcetic, Alisson Becker, Ben Doak, Curtis Jones, Diogo Jota, Joel Matip and Dominik Szoboszlai.
