Liverpool currently have six players sidelined with injuries or ailments. Their coach Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool’s progress this season has been stunted by injuries at crucial times as they prepare to face Ajax in the Champions League on Wednesday.Darwin Nunez and Ibrahima Konate still have some chances of returning from injury in Wednesday’s Champions League game at Ajax, while Thiago Alcantara, Joel Matip, Luis Diaz and Diogo Jota remain sidelined for sure.##NAJAVA_MECA_6757260##Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are ineligible, having not been included in the Reds’ squad for the group stage.🗣 “You need consistency in the line-up, we can’t do that.”Jurgen Klopp is frustrated by the injuries disrupting Liverpool’s flow this season pic.twitter.com/A8ydgYnqfk— Football Daily (@footballdaily) October 26, 2022 Klopp moaned at a press conference ahead of the Ajax tie: “It starts with injuries, then the problem is that the players who have no injuries have to play too often and then the players that do have the injuries, they come back and play too early very often, that’s how it is.”And then they come back and play and then they have another [maybe] not injuries but ‘other things’ and then the medical department says they can’t play more than 20 minutes, they shouldn’t do this and they shouldn’t do that, and these kinds of things, and that’s how you go into the Premier League games with a knife between your teeth.##EDITORS_CHOICE##”So that is tricky, and obviously, those situations are not sorted overnight. Yes players are coming back Ibou (Konate) – Naby, Oxlade-Chamberlain they need to train. We thought they would be out for longer, but now they are back which is good, not back to play, but back to be around and play a few minutes.”We will see what we can do tomorrow. I am really looking forward to the game, I am really positive it’s the Champions League, it’s Ajax, it’s a big game, it’s all good. We have enough players here, so we will give it a proper try.”We play a good game and then we lose two players out after the game. Wow, and then another one is not available for more than 20 minutes, so that’s not easy.”In total, 19 Liverpool players have missed one game or more due to fitness issues this season – including all full-backs, Ibrahima Konate, Curtis Jones, Jordan Henderson, Fabio Carvalho and Roberto Firmino.CHAMPIONS LEAGUEGroup stage – Round 5TuesdaySalzburg – Chelsea 1-2 (1-1)/Adamu 48 – Kovacic 23, Havertz 64/Sevilla – Copenhagen 3-0 (0-0)/En-Nesyri 61, Isco 88, Montiel 90/Dinamo Zagreb – Milan 0-4 (0-1)/Gabbia 39, Leao 49, Giroud 59, Ljubicic (og) 69/Celtic – Shakhtar 1-0 (1-0)/Giakoumakis 34 – Mudryk 58/RB Leipzig – Real Madrid 3-1 (2-1)/Gvardiol 13, Nkunku 18, Werner 81 – Vinicius 44, Rodrygo 90+4 (p)/Dortmund – Man.City 0-0Benfica – Juventus 4-3 (3-1)/Silva 17, Mario 28(p), Rafa Silva 35, 50 – Kean 22, Milik 77, McKenna 79/PSG – Maccabi Haifa 7-2 (4-1)/Mesi 19, 44, Mbappe 32, 64, Neymar 35, Goldberg 67, Soler 84 – Seck 38, 50/Wednesday19:45: (3.45) Club Brugge (3.40) Porto (2.25)19:45: (1.13) Inter (8.50) Plzen (19.0)22:00: (4.00) Ajax (3.80) Liverpool (1.95)22:00: (1.23) Napoli (6.50) Rangers (12.0)22:00: (1.80) Atl.Madrid (3.60) Leverkusen (4.60)22:00: (2.40) Barcelona (3.60) Bayern (3.00)22:00: (2.50) Eintr.Frankfurt (3.30) Olympique Marseille (3.10)22:00: (1.50) Tottenham (4.50) Sporting (7.25)***odds are subject to change***
