Dominik szoboszlai sustained a hamstring injury in liverpool’s 4-2 victory over newcastle united on new year’s day, according to jurgen klopp.
The reds won by a mohamed salah brace and goals from curtis jones and cody gakpo, extending their premier league lead to three goals. However, they lost szoboszlai to injury just after the hour mark, with the hungarian being replaced by ryan gravenberch in the 64th minute.
klopp confirmed that the midfielder had a hamstring injury but was unable to confirm how long his team would be without him. “yeah, he came off because of a wound.” We wanted to take him off,” he told reporters. “it was the intention, but it was a minute late because he had to feel the hamstring in the first instance.“now we don’t know the extent of it,” he said. We have to wait.” liverpool will face fulham in the first leg of the league cup semi-finals on sunday 7 january at arsenal before returning to action in the fa cup on sunday. On sunday, the club’s next premier league match will be against afc bournemouth.
Szoboszlai is expected to join thiago alcantara, stefan bajcetic, andy robertson, joel matip, and kostas tsimikas on the reds’ injury list. Klopp is expected to be without mohamed salah and wataru endo until next month after defeating newcastle in the africa cup of nations and asian cup, though alexis mac allister came back from a leg injury as a substitute for the magpies.
