Liverpool dealt injury setback to Arthur

Liverpool make the journey to London on Sunday afternoon to tackle Premier League leaders Arsenal on the Emirates Stadium, and Jurgen Klopp has delivered some new damage information forward of the conflict.

What’s the most recent?

The Reds supervisor took to his pre-match press convention to disclose that deadline day mortgage arrival Arthur Melo has sustained an damage and won’t be obtainable to characteristic towards Mikel Arteta’s facet this weekend.

Klopp advised the media (by way of This Is Anfield): “There’s one new damage – Arthur within the final session earlier than the Rangers recreation.

“In a traditional state of affairs, he simply injured a muscle. We’ve to attend for additional evaluation to attend for a way lengthy it is going to be.”

Klopp ought to be pissed off

There is no such thing as a doubt that Klopp ought to be pissed off with the most recent damage to a midfielder in his squad, particularly because the Juventus loanee was meant to return in so as to add depth to an already depleted place.

Naby Keita, Curtis Jones, Jordan Henderson, Thiago Alcantara and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain have all suffered from various injury issues over the season up to now, and it was the Liverpool captain’s injury blow towards Newcastle United on the finish of August which prompted the deadline day signing of Arthur.

Liverpool’s ongoing damage points have been a contributor to the horrible begin to the Premier League season we’ve got seen so removed from the Reds, with Klopp’s facet at present ninth within the desk and 11 factors adrift of their upcoming opponents on the summit already.

In consequence, the brand new damage blow to Arthur will certainly annoy his supervisor, who nonetheless has six fixtures to plan for over the remainder of the month, together with a league conflict towards Manchester Metropolis on Sunday week and  their Champions League video games towards Rangers and Ajax.

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Arthur has barely been seen in motion since his transfer to Merseyside in September, that includes for only 13 minutes within the first staff towards Napoli which led to considered one of Liverpool’s heaviest defeats within the Champions League to this point, Subsequently, if Thiago, Fabinho and Henderson can stay match and recent for Sunday, it might seemingly go unnoticed that the midfielder is absent.

With that being stated, Klopp should hope that his present crop of accessible midfielders can preserve their health all through this congested month of fixtures, as shedding one other participant in that place may very well be much more detrimental to Liverpool’s stop-start season.