Klopp hopeful of speedy return
Jurgen Klopp is hopeful that Emre Can can return to the Liverpool side from his injury before the end of the season.
Can suffered the ankle injury in Liverpool’s 4-3 win over Borussia Dortmund on Thursday, and it was confirmed today that he’s looking likely to miss at least 4-6 weeks of action for the Reds.
But Klopp is reluctant to rule the player out for the season, insisting that Liverpool will do everything they can to get him back as soon as they can.
He said: “He [Can] is injured. It is with the ligament in the right ankle. We will see.
“At this moment it is not the best news to be honest but Emre wants to be back as soon as possible and we will try everything we can do.
“I don’t want to give a timescale but we will try everything to get him back as soon as possible.
“Anyone who saw the game against Dortmund could see it would not be too bad if we could involve him one or two times (again this season) but we will see.
“There is a chance, how big time will show.
“It will take time, that is clear, but we have to find other situations -it is not about moaning about the situation.
“It is the last four or five weeks of the season so we should not say ‘OK the season is finished’ because there is hope and it is not.
“But if he is not available we have to find other solutions, we have to give the job to different people, change the style.
“Emre is really in good shape and you could see he felt really secure and was confident and he used his skills like he should use them [- not always running with the ball like he did in the past – and he played man’s football.
“If he is injured, he is injured. We cannot change so we have to think about other things.”
By Ben Kelly – @benkelly_10
