Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp offers a fitness update.
Jurgen Klopp has told Liverpool’s official website that Gini Wijnaldum looks ‘really well’ in training but is unable to confirm whether Dejan Lovren will be fit for tomorrow’s visit of Bayern Munich.
Liverpool host the Bundesliga giants at Anfield in the first leg of a last-16 Champions League tie.
Klopp has a number of injury concerns for the game, most notably at centre-back.
Virgil van Dijk will serve out a one-match ban, while injuries to Lovren and Joe Gomez mean that Joel Matip is their only available centre-back as things stand.
The Croatia international faces a race against time to make tomorrow’s first XI, though Klopp did reveal that Wijnaldum appears to have shrugged off his fitness concerns.
He told the club’s official website: “I don’t know 100 per cent. It’s Monday and we play on Tuesday so most of that should be clear.
“Gini trained and looked really well. Shaq did a lot, so it will be close, we have to see. Dejan, I actually have to wait minute by minute if there is a chance or not.
“But that’s pretty much all, I would say.”
If Lovren is out then it gives Klopp a major, major headache.
Bayern, who sit second in the Bundesliga, haven’t been themselves this season, but they still boast more than enough firepower to seriously hurt a depleted Liverpool defence.
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