Jurgen Klopp has confirmed Dominik Szoboszlai’s injury timetable, as the Liverpool midfielder remains doubtful for the friendly.
Dominik Szoboszlai is a doubt for Liverpool’s first friendly in Singapore, according to Jurgen Klopp, after the midfielder was forced to miss an entertaining match against Greuther Furth.
Szoboszlai, a £60 million summer transfer from RB Leipzig, was absent from the 4-4 draw behind closed doors on Monday afternoon at the MS-Technologie-Arena in Villingen-Schwenningen due to a minor injury sustained in training.
The Hungary international is now a doubt for Sunday’s friendly against Leicester City in Singapore, but he is expected to play against Bayern Munich three days later.
“He rolled his ankle slightly in training,” Klopp explained. Everyone is overjoyed, especially himself.
“If we had a Premier League game today or something, he could play.” So we don’t take a chance, and we’ll see what we do with the Leicester game after travel (and) such. But he will undoubtedly be ready for the Bayern game.”
Szoboszlai was joined on the bench for Monday’s game by fellow midfielders Thiago Alcantara and Stefan Bajcetic, as well as centre-back Nat Phillips, with keepers Caoimhin Kelleher, Fabian Mrozek, and Viteszlav Jaros also missing out as Liverpool looked to give minutes to Alisson Becker, Adrian, and Marcelo Pitaluga in goal.
Luis Diaz gave the Reds the lead at halftime, only for Julian Green to equalize early in the second half. Darwin Nunez’s two goals placed Liverpool in front before Lukas Petkov and an Armindo Sieb brace put Greuther ahead, only for Mohamed Salah to equalize a minute later.
Liverpool exhibited the consequences of their hard training camp, according to Klopp, but there were no clear injury worries from the game.
“It was a spectacular result, a lot of good football situations, and obviously we could have scored before we did in the first half,” remarked the Reds’ manager. “That was all right.
“But, as you can see, on the last day of camp, we travelled here, then played, and are about to travel again, which is always a bit exhausting.” But that’s all there is to it; you must go through it, like we did. Most significantly, no one was hurt.
“Of course, no one likes to give up four goals. But, as you can see in the second half, we tried to build up but were too late with the pass or the initial touch wasn’t excellent, and that’s how they got back into the game.
“However, we scored some really nice goals.” There were a lot of good individual efforts, and everyone got some nice minutes. I’m overjoyed because it was a great camp.”
Liverpool’s 10-day stint in Germany came to an end with the game, and the group will now returning to Merseyside before travelling to Singapore on Thursday.
“The camp was top, absolutely top class,” Klopp told LFC TV. We’ll try to return if we can because the circumstances were ideal. We were free to do whatever we wanted. The local club provided us with tremendous assistance. It’s great that Greuther Furth came here to play us because we’re almost home and it was a long travel for them to get here.
“I understand that no one wants to concede four goals, but there were eight!” Come on, people. It’s fine.”
