Liverpool need some ‘miracles’

STRUGGLING TO GET WALKING WOUNDED BACK

Juergen Klopp claimed Liverpool need “miracles” to get his walking wounded back in time to boost their quadruple bid.

Klopp’s side defied a host of injuries to win the League Cup 1-0 against Chelsea in Sunday’s final at Wembley.

But Liverpool midfielder Ryan Gravenberch added to the club’s mounting fitness crisis when he was stretchered off in the first-half and he missed last night’s FA Cup fifth round tie against Southampton.

Wataru Endo left Wembley on crutches and wearing a protective boot.

That leaves Klopp without 13 first team players, including Mohamed

Salah, Darwin Nunez and Dominik Szoboszlai, as the Reds try to add three more trophies to last weekend’s silverware.

“We need miracles with a few players. I don’t want to rule them out for too long,” Klopp told reporters.

“But it is touch and go with a lot of players who were not available for the final: Darwin, Mo, Dom – we have to see what they can do.

“In an ideal world you’d think about these kind of things but we obviously don’t live in an ideal world so we will see when the players arrive and they get checked.”

“First and foremost, they (youngsters) don’t have to show anything. Our boys played in youth teams and under-21s and only came up recently and trained with us: absolutely nil experience but a lot of talent and they showed that,” he said.

“What these boys have to do is to really enjoy what they are doing. They have to defend like men, otherwise they cannot play.

“I saw them doing that on Sunday and it obviously helped and it gave confidence and there are so many things you cannot buy.”

Liverpool have made tentative moves to organise an end-of-season parade regardless of whether they win any more trophies.

The Reds want to mark the end of Klopp’s nine-year reign after the German’s recent announcement that he will be stepping down.

“That is the one part which is not so cool that it could be seen as that” (a farewell to him). I don’t think that makes sense. But besides that, I am a big supporter of trophy parades.” –

Picture: Getty Images GOOD TIMES: Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp is worried that his team’s massive injury list could seriously hamper their chances of capturing a cherished quadruple this season.