Liverpool handed boost on Konate

Liverpool face Ajax in Amsterdam for his or her penultimate Champions League group-stage conflict, and Jurgen Klopp has delivered a promising damage replace forward of the sport.

What’s the newest?

The Liverpool supervisor took to his pre-match press conference to disclose that Ibrahima Konate will probably be in rivalry for some sport time tonight.

Klopp informed the media: “He’s right here, able to play minutes I might say.”

It’s excellent news for Liverpool

There is no such thing as a doubt that the return of Konate is sweet information for Liverpool after a disappointing defensive efficiency within the Premier League on the weekend – when the Reds misplaced 1-0 to Nottingham Forest at The Metropolis Floor.

Joe Gomez has been occupying the proper facet of Liverpool’s centre-back partnership with Virgil Van Dijk, but it surely wouldn’t be stunning if Klopp decides to shake up the beginning line-up after the disappointing end result on Saturday.

Konate has been a strong drive for the facet since he joined the membership again in the summertime of 2021, enjoying an important half in Liverpool’s pursuit for 4 trophies final season and was given the nod to start out within the Champions League closing towards Actual Madrid owing to his kind.

Over eight appearances within the prestigious European competitors final season, Konate scored two objectives, loved a mean of 78.5 touches, made 1.6 interceptions, two tackles and a pair of.9 clearances per sport, and received 59% of his duels mixed.

Within the Frenchman’s solely Champions League outing within the present marketing campaign, the 23-year-old made one interception, one sort out and 4 clearances, in addition to received a whopping eight duels and tallied up a 92% cross completion price over his 79-minutes on the pitch towards Rangers.

Klopp is a big admirer of the defender and hailed Konate an “distinctive expertise” again in January (by way of Anfield Watch):

“I feel all of us agree he’s an distinctive expertise, bodily excellent and an excellent footballer as properly.”

With that being mentioned, whether or not Konate performs the complete sport or only a few minutes towards Ajax, it will likely be an enormous aid for the supervisor that he has a key participant he can belief to come back into the back-line over the upcoming video games forward.