Liverpool hotshot Jayden Danns has been dominated out of the Reds’ Europa League last-16 conflict with Sparta Prague.
Danns, 18, suffered a concussion when he collided with Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Matz Sels on Saturday, ensuing in a booking. The forward, who scored his first two senior goals for Liverpool in ultimate Wednesday’s 3-0 victory over Southampton to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals, subsequently wasn’t named in the Reds’ 23-man touring squad for their time out to Prague on Thursday.
That’s like nine different players presently sidelined, particularly Alisson Becker, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joel Matip, Stefan Bajcetic, Thiago Alcantara, Diogo Jota, Ben Doak, Curtis Jones, Ryan Gravenberch. In their absences, supervisor Jurgen Klopp has called up a number of highly-rated academy prospects, with forward trio Kaide Gordon, Mateusz Musialowski and Lewis Koumas all making the trip the Czech capital in advance of their round-of-16 first leg.
Talismanic winger Mohamed Salah has also travelled, having overlooked Liverpool’s last four video games in all competitions after returning against Brentford final month – his one and solely look seeing that January 18 when he suffered an injury in the course of Egypt’s unsuccessful Africa Cup of Nations campaign. Klopp plans to give Salah some much-needed minutes towards Czech champions Sparta, explaining at his pre-match press conference: “Yeah, Mo travelled. He is with us, he educated two days, so full of energy. We have to see.
“But it is so true that he is back, that is absolutely accurate for us and you can see in his face he is very happy. A very unfortunate state of affairs with being that lengthy out and in for a moment, if you want, at Brentford, played an extremely good sport there and was out again.
“That’s how it is. We prefer to be careful, we have to be careful, however in the center of a super-intense duration of the season we want every body and now let’s see how long we can use him. That’s how it is with him and with others as well. Yeah, simply suitable news.”
Also reachable again is midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai, who made a late cameo in Saturday’s last-gasp 1-0 win away to Forest, with Darwin Nunez scoring in the 99th minute. “It is suitable that he is back,” Klopp said of the Hungary international.
“He loves taking part in football. Being injured is for him tough, tough, tough. It was now not an damage the place it was painful every day or whatever, he was once simply not allowed to teach properly, how it is with muscle injuries.
“So, it really is the motive why we had to be cautious in his rehab, due to the fact if you would have asked Dom, he may want to have educated definitely with the group for two or three weeks, but all the scientific advice told us no, we have to wait. And that is what we did. Now he is back, performed a few minutes, is in the squad. All the rest, we will see.”
