Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders was surprised to hear that right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold has suffered a knee injury.
The defender was instrumental in Arsenal’s exit from the FA Cup, but the Anfield side have confirmed that Trent will be sidelined for several weeks.”First of all, bad news. Trent sprained his knee badly in the last game,” Linders told the club’s official website. “So he’s got a torn collateral ligament in his knee, it’s going to take a while to heal. “He’s had a scan and he’s out for a few weeks, so we’ll see. “I hope he rests and gets back to where he was, because this man has played a decisive role in every game, always making us deep and giving the team a lot of flexibility.
We will miss him very much.”Alexander-Arnold has become Liverpool’s seventh injured player, with Jurgen Klopp now facing a serious defensive crisis.Van Dijk missed the FA Cup tie through illness but the centre-back is expected to return against Fulham.
However Robertson and Tsimikas were still sent off along with Alexander-Arnold.All of their starting defenders are currently injured, meaning 20-year-old Conor Bradley will start at right-back on Wednesday night. The next few games are relatively easy for Liverpool, but the Anfield side face Chelsea and Arsenal early next month and Alexander-Arnold’s absence could be a real problem for Klopp.
Bradley played well for 15 minutes against Gabriel Martinelli, but playing 90 minutes against Arsenal or Chelsea will be tough. The only thing Klopp will be praying for now is that neither Joe Gomez nor Bradley get injured in the upcoming games. Because if that happened it would be a disaster for the Merseyside outfit.
