Jurgen Klopp has confirmed defender Dejan Lovren will miss the game against Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.
The centre back picked up a hamstring injury in Liverpool’s FA Cup win at the start of the month against Wolves and will not be available for the crunch clash at the weekend.
The visitors will also be without long term absentees Joe Gomez, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Rhian Brewster.
“Dejan is not in, Joe is not in, but I think pretty much all the rest are in training at least,” Klopp said.
“Rhian Brewster is still only in little parts [of training], Ox in bigger parts but not ready to play. The rest have trained and will train with us, but there is still a little bit of time.
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“Usually now I get the message that somebody is ill in the last three weeks, so I am still a bit nervous about that. But until now I didn’t hear anything.”
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was handed an injury boost ahead of the game as he confirmed Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard, who missed the win against Chelsea in the FA Cup, could be back in contention to start.
“We’re looking OK, I hope Jesse will be OK, more hope than think,” Solskjaer said. “Anthony will be OK, so they’ve got to get through these two sessions but have been doing some recovery work. Anthony’s was a difficult muscle, we think he might be ready and hope Jesse will.”