Jurgen Klopp provides injury update as four key players ruled out vs Ajax

The Reds will travel to Amsterdam to face the Eredivisie leaders in the returning leg of the UCL group stage.

In the first meeting between the teams, Jurgen Klopp’s men celebrated a 2-1 victory at the Anfield Stadium in September.

Meanwhile, the Premier League side are heading to Johan Cruijff ArenA with a massive injury blow as Thiago Alcantara, Diogo Jota, Luis Diaz and Joel Matip are all ruled out from the clash.

Speaking in his pre-match interview via Football London, the German manager provided an update on his squad’s fitness.

“Darwin is good. He trained normally, yesterday and today, so yes, at this moment he is available.

“Thiago is still out. Konate is here, ready to play minutes I would say. He could play the first minutes but that doesn’t make too much sense. But minutes, yes. Nothing new yet. Matip is still not ready.

“And they come back and play, and they have another ‘thing’, and the medical department tells you they cannot play more than 20 minutes, they shouldn’t do this, shouldn’t do that, these kinds of things. And then you’ve got a Premier League game against a team with a knife in their teeth! That’s tricky.

“That situation is not sorted overnight. Yes players are coming back, but you ask me if Ibou is ready to play. He trained properly yesterday. He was not out long, but he had a muscle thing, so does it make sense to put him straight in for 95 minutes? Same with Naby, he needs to train. Oxlade-Chamberlain, needs to train.

“They are both not in the Champions League squad because everybody told me they would be out for longer, but now they are back, which is good, but not back to play, just to be around and play a few minutes.”