Ibrahima Konate missed Liverpool’s draw with Man City (Photo: Getty)
Jurgen Klopp has revealed that Ibrahima Konate has a ‘good chance’ of returning from injury in time for Liverpool’s trip to Manchester United next weekend.
Konate was subbed off because of a thigh injury in the second-half of Liverpool’s Europa League win at Sparta Prague last Thursday.
As a result, the centre-back missed Sunday’s huge clash against Manchester City at Anfield, though thankfully for Klopp and co. youngster Jarell Quansah stepped up to the mark to help earn his side a point.
There were fears that Konate’s injury could be very serious and yet another massive blow to the Reds who have been decimated by injuries of late as they attempt to win an unprecedented ‘quadruple’.
That quest continues next Sunday when they travel to bitter rivals United for an FA Cup quarter-final clash.
It’s their last game before the March international break and Klopp has now confirmed that there is a strong possibility that the Frenchman will feature at Old Trafford.
Asked in his post-match press conference if Konate’s injury was serious, the manager responded: ‘No, no. Ibou has a chance for United. A good chance.’
Jurgen Klopp will be delighted to have Konate back as soon as possible (Photo: Getty)
This is a huge boost for Liverpool who have got many key players stuck in the treatment room including Alisson Becker, Diogo Jota and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
‘We need the players back. All the stories we created with the kids and stuff are wonderful, wonderful, I couldn’t be happier about that, but of course we fight for the biggest prize in football,’ Klopp added.
‘Today, Ibou Konate is out then we start all three of our other centre-halves and if one goes down and we play in the next six days two games with two centre-halves which play all the time.
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‘All these kind of things are really tricky but we came through it, and that’s why I said we played really good football in that time and we were lucky in moments: winning late, fighting hard, 99th minute and 118th minute and stuff like this.
‘We don’t take that for granted but today the performance was really like, “One or two players back, we can change like we changed, oh yeah, that is cool”. and that is why I am really happy about that today.
‘Plus, what that means for the next game I have no idea, I don’t even know a little bit about the situation [and] if anybody feels more than tired. I didn’t ask yet, but it is just good information for me, that we can play like that. I’m really happy about that and now let’s see what we can do from here.’
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