Ahead of Fulham visit on Sunday, Liverpool Football club now have more to worry about with Ozan Kabak now on the list of injured players.
The defending Premier League champions have been battling fitness challenge since the commencement of the season, with established stars such as Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez ruled out earlier on.
Fabinho did step back into a centre-half berth in a 1-0 defeat to Chelsea, but Nat Phillips missed that contest with a slight knock and Kabak has now joined him in the treatment room.
Klopp said “We had a problem that Nat couldn’t play. We had to make a decision. Do we take an inexperienced pairing on the pitch or do we play with Fab?
“Now Ozan has a little problem after the game. We will see if he’s ready – doesn’t look like it.”
Klopp added, with another January addition, Ben Davies, still waiting on his debut: “Nat will be ready and Ben as well.
“It’s not easy in our situation, we brought him in and he’s had to adapt. He’s a really good player. We have to see which decision we make for it. Looks like everyone could be available for Sunday but Ozan.”
Van Dijk and Gomez have been long-term absentees for the Reds, forcing Klopp into regular rounds of tactical tinkering.
Joel Matip is another established centre-half option that has been ruled out, while club captain Jordan Henderson has undergone surgery on the groin problem he picked up after filling in at the back.
The rest of Liverpool’s walking wounded have started to return, with James Milner and Diogo Jota figuring off the bench in a disappointing defeat to Chelsea.
