Doubts about Liverpool benefiting from Mohamed Salah against Chelsea .. Klopp explains the health situation!

German coach Jurgen Klopp revealed the health of his team before facing Chelsea, on Sunday, in the 21st round of the English Football League, noting that there are many new infections with the Corona virus among the players and the technical and administrative staff.

And Corona had spread again in the English Premier League, forcing the English League to postpone a large number of matches, and in the event that the Liverpool match with Chelsea was postponed, the “Reds” would be the most affected, especially since the club fought to obtain the approval of the Egyptian and African federations for Mohamed Salah to remain in England. To play this confrontation and then join the Egyptian national team in the African Nations Cup, which begins in Cameroon on January 9, 2022.

Klopp said in a press conference before the Chelsea meeting: "The duo, Thiago Alcantara and Takumi Minamino, are not ready and Taki is closer to playing while he is running outside, but Thiago is not yet, he has a thigh problem and we don't know where it came from."

He added: “We have three more cases of corona in the team and more in the work team, the situation is not great at the moment, I can’t say who are infected, because we still have to do swabs, get a proper PCR and all these kinds of things, but it will be It is very clear in the squad list and squad for the day after tomorrow."

He continued, "We were not close to postponing the match until now, we did not notice the outbreak properly yet but it is happening more and more, we have never seen this type of outbreak where it was 10, 15, 20 players."

Klopp continued: “For us every day more than another player, the staff is now more and more, so like I said before it feels like a lottery in the morning when you stand there and wait for the result, it was now pretty much day in day out always one case, today. Another case appears.

Liverpool have 41 points from 19 games, nine points behind Manchester City, the leaders, with 50 points from 20 games.

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