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A bruising fixture list, questions over Joel Matip's long-term fitness and big pressure heaped on a rookie defence reeling from Joe Gomez's injury... Jurgen Klopp's major issues as he tries to keep Liverpool's Premier League title defence alive

Just as Jurgen Klopp might have thought Liverpool's injury crisis couldn't get much worse, it did.

With nobody near him, Joe Gomez's knee buckled in England training on Wednesday and he crumpled to the floor, very possibly along with Liverpool's chances of defending their Premier League title this season.

The diagnosis is still to be confirmed but the 23-year-old centre-back is expecting to face a major battle to play a part in Euro 2020 next summer, let alone any role in the remainder of Liverpool's season. He joins Virgil van Dijk on the sidelines for the campaign, a place Gomez knows all too well already in his fledgling career.