Jurgen Klopp admitted he doubts Dominic Szoboszlei will be available for this month’s Carabao Cup final as the Liverpool manager shared new details about the midfielder’s injury. Soboslay started all of the Reds’ Premier League games before picking up the injury in the 4-2 win over Newcastle on New Year’s Day. He returned as a second-half substitute in the FA Cup win at home to Norwich City on 28 January. But the situation has become more complicated for the Hungary captain, who was making his first start since the 4-1 win over Chelsea on January 31 and is set to miss Liverpool’s trip to relegation-threatened Burnley on Saturday afternoon.
And while Klopp has declared an eighth man fit for next week’s trip to Brentford, the manager said he is not sure Szoboszlay will be fit in time for the League Cup clash with Chelsea on February 25. Klopp said: “I told Dom [at a press conference on Friday], if you ask him, I’ll play against Brentford.” “It’s an injury problem. This is a muscle injury with minor tendon damage.”The muscles are not big, but there is a problem with the hamstring, and the hamstring does not hurt, but the player says: ‘It’s fine, let’s go.’ He was clearly not used to being hurt like this. “He had a long-term problem in Salzburg, but he managed to play a lot since then. He came to Leipzig with problems, but since then he has managed to play regularly.” He is not the most patient person. We don’t know [about the final]. “If you ask him, he says he will definitely play in the final, but I don’t know. He searches. He runs outside. I saw some guys running around, they’re back and I think it’s going to be a while. We have to see.”
