Tonight was Naby Keita’s big chance, but it went abysmally.
Not only was the Guinean very poor for the first 15 minutes, but he was stretchered off with his head in his hands. It looks like he may have picked up a very nasty injury, which is the last thing we wanted.
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We’ll only find out the extent of the injury later, but when a player is driven by a cart off the pitch, with no obvious challenge affecting him, it doesn’t look good.
With Adam Lallana also injured, and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain obviously a very long way off, we have only Fabinho on the bench as a central midfield option, but Jurgen Klopp doesn’t yet trust his Brazilian summer signing tactically.
Here’s how Reds reacted on Twitter: