Crisis is a word often overused when it comes to injuries but it’s application to Liverpool’s current plight feels apt

Quite some team if you ask me...

Alisson Becker - hamstring (time out unspecified)
Trent Alexander-Arnold - knee (back early March)
Joel Matip - cruciate knee surgery (out for the season)
Stefan Bajcetic - muscle injuries (unspecified)
Dominik Szoboszlai - hamstring (one more week)
Thiago Alcantara - hamstring (couple of months)
Curtis Jones - ankle ligaments (unspecified)
Ben Doak - ankle - (back in April)
Diogo Jota - knee (two months)
Mohamed Salah - muscle fatigue (in treatment)
Darwin Nunez - muscle pain (in treatment)

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Liverpool can take their lead at the top of the Premier League table to four points over Manchester City should they beat Luton at Anfield this evening. 

If anything, this past few days has felt like a period where the Premier League title race has really hotted up

City’s dropping points at home against Chelsea was perhaps a chink in the armour and the relentless form of tonight’s hosts and fellow title hopefulls Arsenal means all is to play of at the top. 

WIth a Carabao Cup final on the horizon and something of a growing injury crisis to manage, Jurgen Klopp will have to shuffle his deck carefully this evening. 

Curtis Jones, Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez all left the field during the 4-1 win over Brentford at the weekend, joining Stefan Bajcetic, Joel Matip, Ben Doak, Thiago Alcantara, Dominik Szoboszlai, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Allison on the sidelines.

It would be a surprise to see any of the original trio in the squad tonight, but Mohamed Salah should be in line to start his first match since departing for the African Cup of Nations.

Liverpool will be prohibitive favourites this evening, with Luton arriving at Anfield saddled with a three-match winless run in the Premier League having won three straight to close out January. 

Rob Edwards’s side will have been justified to feel touch aggrieved after getting nothing from their meeting with Man Utd at Kenilworth Road on Sunday.

Early defensive lapses left them trailing 2-0 early, before they went on to dominate large swathes of the game but only breaching the United rearguard once. 

Any repetition of such errors again will be brutally punished tonight you’d imagine. 


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