Darwin Nunez looks set to overcome his recent injury concern and be available for the contest against Manchester City on Saturday.
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Liverpool received a “massive boost” in Luis Diaz’s injury situation after the Colombian returned to training from his lengthy setback. However, manager Jurgen Klopp has confirmed that he will not be a part of the massive contest against defending champions Manchester City on Saturday. The last time Nunez donned a Liverpool jersey was away to Arsenal in October. It remains to be seen when he will return for the Reds. However, Liverpool did get some positive injury developments too.
Darwin Nunez looks set to overcome his recent injury concern and be available for the contest against Manchester City on Saturday. But first Klopp was happy to see the progress made by Luis Diaz. “Yeah, we have to be patient but it’s a massive boost anyway. It’s just nice to have the boy around because he is a super energiser, super-positive impact with just being around. [His] English got slightly better, so he used the time to learn English, which is good,” he told told Liverpoolfc.com.
“It was a super, super-strange and difficult season for Luis, it was the Arsenal game, what a situation that was when he got injured early in the season. It was a really bad day, by the way. So, we will see. In training everything looks fine but of course he’s not in the squad for the weekend, there’s no chance. Next week will be an important week for him; this week he was doing parts of training, next week I think most of the things he can do. Then we will see. Maybe [ready for] Arsenal but more likely Leeds after that.”
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Jurgen Klopp later gave fitness update on other squad players like Darwin Nunez and Naby Keita. Nunez is very much in contention to play on Saturday, however, Keita is out of the contest. “Darwin couldn’t train for two or three days this week still because of the cut he got against Real Madrid on his foot, but was yesterday then back in full training so he is definitely in contention. Yeah, we have [other injury concerns]. Naby is out, he came back with a muscle injury from the national team. We will see how long it takes but obviously the season is not too long anymore. There is a chance that Naby comes back but we have to wait a little bit,” Klopp said at a press conference.
He also provided an update on Spanish midfielder Thiago Alcantara and English centre-back Joe Gomez. “Thiago is in a good way but was not part of team training yet. I think if things go well he will probably be part of next week’s team training, parts – [that] means we will see when he is back. Joe [Gomez] is fully back. Rhys Williams has a little bit of something. I think pretty much the rest is available; all back. We had a little bit stomach bugs here and there but [that] stopped two days ago so should be alright,” he added.
