Mohamed Salah will return to Liverpool after appearing to injure his hamstring in Egypt’s group stage game against Ghana.
Both Liverpool and the Egyptian FA confirmed the news after Liverpool’s 4-0 win over Bournemouth.
Manager Jurgen Klopp said after the game: “However long he is out, I think probably everybody sees that it makes sense that he is doing the rehab with us or with our people,”
“I’m not a doctor,” he added. “I would say if Egypt qualify for the final and he is fit before the final then probably yes. Why not?
“That’s clear, it’s the tournament. Ivory Coast, I am sure it is a wonderful country, but we have no people from us there and their people have to take care of the players who are playing, so let’s see.”
With the timeline of Salah’s recovery expected to be around the semi-final or final of AFCON, the Egyptian will hope that his national side can make it to that stage without him.
Klopp also added to how his side are coping without their main talisman: “In the situation we are in without Mo, for example, we have to find a way.“
“We have players who can play [on] the right wing, and they can all play [on] the right wing, but which is the best position? And how do we set up the rest around? Darwin can obviously play [on] the left wing, he did [that] before.
“So, we had to make a decision [to] bring Darwin in his position and bring Lucho [Luis Diaz] in his position and ask Diogo to do the job there. Diogo is, how I said, they can all play [on] the right wing, and he did before, but on top of that [he’s] a really smart player.”
He also added on how youngster Conor Bradley has seamlessly come in for the injured Trent Alexander-Arnold.
“Really, really good,” he added. “Very impressive. I can say exactly the same, a wonderful kid, a really hard worker, and a good footballer. He is a defender but he can attack as well.”
“He could’ve scored, probably should’ve scored a header. I forgot that. No, he should’ve scored in that situation.”
“But anyhow it was a really good game and for the first one, yeah, sometimes you have to forget your first game because it’s just your first one, but no he shouldn’t, that’s a good start.”
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