Liverpool face two further injury blows after victory over Leicester

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has confirmed that Naby Keita suffered a hamstring injury during their impressive 3-0 win over Leicester.

Keita’s career at Anfield has not really taken off with several injuries limiting his time on the field and he lasted just 53 minutes before limping out and being replaced by Neco Williams.

And after the game, Klopp revealed that the midfielder will now be evaluated by the medical team to determine the severity of the injury, in the middle of a frantic scheduled encounter.

He said: “He felt his hamstring and he couldn’t continue playing, otherwise he would have stayed on the field.”

Keita will be joined on the disabled list by Xherdan Shaqiri, who suffered a muscle problem on international service for Switzerland.

Klopp added: “Shaq, how do I know, he had a muscle injury with the national team that he didn’t really realize about.

“Now he trained with us, we gave him a day off and then he came back and was involved in the session, but he wasn’t fully involved and all these kinds of things.

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“He just did a little bit, after that he felt a little bit. Then we did a scan and they found out that he has an injury from five or six days ago.”

“Nobody knew about it, not even Shaq knew about it, but that’s the way it is sometimes and that’s why he couldn’t get involved.”

But after testing positive for coronavirus last week, Mohamed Salah will return to training on Monday and will be in contention to face Atalanta in the Champions League on Wednesday.

“That’s what I’ve heard, yeah, [was] negative today, ”Klopp said. “I think from now on it’s pretty normal in testing. Tomorrow we have the UEFA Champions League trials and I’m pretty sure he’ll be in on that.

“Now you can train with us tomorrow, that’s all. They will have two tests in the next two days, so yes, they will do it like all of us ”.