The Germany global eventually regained his feet and was helped from the pitch, rather than having to be carried off on a stretcher, but immediately after the game it was too early to know the exact problem or its extent. He had a little pain in his ankle without any touch – I couldn’t see any contact.
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Playing in his preferred role down the middle, he ghosted onto crosses from first Milner and then Mane, to leave Klopp beaming and home boss Nigel Clough admitting it was a bit of a lesson.
“But it is not that serious”. “With Emre there is nothing really serious in the ankle, but it is his ankle where he had a few problems in the past”.
“Hopefully it’s nothing too serious”.
Can is suffering from a recurring ankle injury he sustained last season while Origi looked exhausted when he departed the pitch in the second half against Burton.
Substitute Daniel Sturridge netted a late double as Klopp’s side blew away the cobwebs of Saturday’s surprise 2-0 defeat to Burnley.
However, Klopp declined to lavish praise on the 24-year-old African as he analysed the £30m signing’s start to life as a Liverpool player.
He trained his guns towards Klopp earlier in the summer for pushing the Liverpool players too much during early pre-season training, and recently said that the German has made a mistake by trying to enforce his high pressing style too early, which will eventually lead to more injuries.
“So we needed to use this game and that’s what we did and it was better”.
Tuesday’s 5-0 win over Burton in the League Cup second round brought many positives, but injuries to the duo dampened the mood a little.
“Of course in the end we have to make decisions but what I have to do is pick the right players to make the right solutions”, said Klopp.
“The job the players have to do is to be in the best shape they can be in. It is clear what both sides have to do but they are hard decisions”.
It was the dreams of the Burton fans who were shattered, as the visitors showed they do have quality up front despite the evidence to the contrary when they had 26 shots at Burnley but never troubled the keeper.
He said: “You saw the gulf in quality”. He missed one chance when set up by Firmino, but then created more for Origi and Lallana, before sending Clyne galloping down the right to cross for the Brazilian to score before the break.
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“It was (invaluable experience)”.
