Arne Slot shall be hoping Curtis Jones has prevented any lasting damage, however the Liverpool midfielder was pressured off at half-time towards Lille with a brand new difficulty.
Jones was one in all 4 gamers introduced into the facet for Liverpool’s penultimate Champions League league sport, however the midfielder solely final 45 minutes.
After taking numerous knocks within the first half, receiving therapy from physio Chris Morgan and membership physician Jonathan Energy, the England worldwide was changed on the break.
Harvey Elliott took his place and ultimately scored the winner, with Slot offering an replace in his post-match press convention.
Liverpool 2-1 Lille
Slot defined that the withdrawal Ryan Gravenberch, who was additionally introduced off at half-time, was pre-planned, as was that of Dominik Szoboszlai, whose exit was delayed resulting from Jones’ damage.
“The concept was to take Dom and Ryan off at half-time, however sadly Curtis couldn’t proceed, in order that’s why Dom stayed a bit longer,” he informed reporters.
Questioned on Jones’ setback, Slot stated: “There was a second within the sport that he felt [something] and he stated ‘let’s play for 5 extra minutes after which see how it’s’.
“However he stated he needed to exit at half-time.”
The pinnacle coach additionally revealed that Conor Bradley‘s late substitution was precautionary, with no dangers taken significantly as Liverpool knew by then that they’d advance to the final 16.
“Conor the thought was to play him 90, however ultimately you possibly can see that it acquired harder and harder for him by way of load,” Slot stated.
“So that you don’t wish to take the danger of him getting injured in the previous couple of minutes prefer it occurred towards Madrid.
“We needed to win this sport, however we had been additionally conscious of the truth that now we have to handle the load, as a result of we might have been actually, actually, actually unfortunate if we might have misplaced this and nonetheless not been within the prime eight.
“As we all know now, I believe 18 factors would have been sufficient to play prime eight, however now with 21 there’s no dialogue anymore.”
Jones’ damage shall be monitored within the coming days, with Ipswich guests to Anfield within the Premier League on Saturday.
The hope is that there shall be no lasting injury for the No. 17 and that he received’t be a part of Joe Gomez and Diogo Jota on the absentee checklist.
