The Reds return to Premier League action against Watford on Saturday without their star goalkeeper Alisson Becker, 29.
What did Jurgen Klopp say?
Alisson found himself on the bench for his country as they beat Uruguay 4-1 on Thursday night. Along with Liverpool midfielder Fabinho, the cross-barber will have to sit out the collision at Vicarage Road. Red coach Klopp has confirmed the goalkeeper and Fabinho will not be in the lineup for Saturday’s match.
In addition to Brazil’s game against Uruguay ending early Friday morning UK time, the quarantine rules would mean that the Brazilian International and Fabinho would have to go into isolation as well.
Jurgen Klopp said at a press conference on Friday that they have no chance, obviously; someone decided to give Brazil the opportunity to play last night, so a few hours ago, and someone decided that they should play on Saturday at 12:30. All this is not in their hands.
If they say something, it’s always the same people say the same thing, yes, that’s why they have a large squad … but they have a large squad not for questions with football associations, because they bet in tournaments – there must be five players playing, four players must be playing there, but then they still have league play to play.
So, according to Klopp, they’ve known this for a while, they made their decision a while ago, they had to sort the quarantine questions and all these things, so the decision they made is that the boys won’t be here – they’ll go straight to Madrid. wait there for them and then, Klopp hopes to be able to play against Atlético.
The return of allison becker
Alisson Becker went straight to Spain to await the Champions League match against Atlético Madrid. Alisson Becker will be available to play against Simeone’s on Tuesday and then return to England ahead of next week’s Premier League match against Man Utd. Jurgen Klopp said that since the last game they played in the red list country was Colombia, don’t ask him now which day, but next Wednesday – Thursday at one minute after midnight, then it’s 10 days, and from that the moment they can return.
These are the rules for the moment, and they cannot change that. They could fly to England, but with all the quarantine stuff, that would mean they had to isolate themselves from their families and everything. Alisson Becker has three children and has been away for 12 days with the team, and then 10 days in isolation, then two weeks here, again the same rubbish. They need solutions for this, and they still don’t exist.