Liverpool midfielder Thiago is predicted to be sidelined for six weeks with the hamstring injury he picked up through the 2-2 draw with Fulham on Saturday.
The Spaniard has endured a patchy health file since signing for the Reds in 2020, that includes in 49 Premier League matches in his first two seasons at Anfield.
However, The Athletic report that he should wait mid-October to be again on the pitch, having limped off early within the second half at Craven Cottage.
Manager Jurgen Klopp lamented the injury setbacks suffered in his Liverpool squad after the sport – Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Curtis Jones and Naby Keita all missed out – however nonetheless doesn’t anticipate the membership shifting for a brand new midfielder.
Jordan Henderson and Fabinho began Saturday’s sport alongside Thiago earlier than Harvey Elliott changed him at the beginning of the second half. James Milner additionally entered instead with no different central midfield possibility left on the bench.
“I know what will now come up, it’s clear. We said we don’t need a midfielder because we have enough – and we actually have enough, but the problem now is we get punished for something that is not our responsibility really because things like this can happen,” Klopp stated, through LiverpoolFC.com.
“Nobody could imagine that Curtis gets the thing he gets; it is nothing serious but he is a young boy and it is a kind of stress reaction. Bodies are like this.
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“Naby is just in poor health and he’ll now be again undoubtedly subsequent week once more. Oxlade occurred early and now with Thiago that’s, after all, not good and we are going to see.”
“We have midfielders, now we have nonetheless sufficient midfielders. It shouldn’t be that we lack midfielders, but it surely’s simply a few of them are injured. This shouldn’t be a superb state of affairs, I don’t prefer it in any respect, however now we have to see how we react on that – however for positive not panicking.”
