Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp gives major updates on injured players

As a result, Liverpool will now have to cope without arguably their best player, and he will likely miss key fixtures against West Ham, Everton and Manchester City.

The Brazilian was substituted in the first half of the Reds’ 2-0 victory over Sunderland on Saturday and underwent a scan at Spire Hospital in Liverpool on Monday afternoon.

Although scans are yet to reveal the extent of the damage, Coutinho is believed to be unavailable for the Merseysiders until mid-January.

“But of course I can say now there is no excuse for anything”. That doesn’t mean we can take one, but it’s only to be informed – to know about development, strength, whatever and that’s what we do.

“When you are in the rhythm it is different but we are not in this rhythm”.

With Danny Ings and Philippe Coutinho both out injured and Roberto Firmino struggling with a knock, the Wales youth worldwide could be handed his first ever start for the visit of Championship side Leeds.

England midfielder Adam Lallana is also set to miss the game but manager Jurgen Klopp confirmed that the player is making good progress with his groin issue.

Liverpool’s next game comes against Leeds United in the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup, before a trip to Bournemouth on Sunday. “Daniel is not in team training so that means the same”. I don’t think so, to be honest. That’s something we have to wait for, how he feels today.

I could not fault Sunderland for effort, they gave everything and were always in the game right up until injury time when James Milner’s penalty killed us off.

Speaking about the injury situation Klopp says he will not risk his players for the club game and listen to his player’s intuition.

“Garry Monk is a very, very promising young manager”.

“If nothing happens, Simon will play, 100 percent”. It was only after the game that I remembered it’s now really hard to keep him back again, not for Ben or for me, but for the public. “There are very good teams at the top so we need to focus and keep on going”. We spoke about a camp, we organised a camp for the summer and all that stuff. We are not in this rhythm.

“At that moment I thought it was a good idea [for him to play against Sunderland], he deserved it and I thought: ‘Come on, let’s go.’ It was only a few minutes”.