{"id":22361,"date":"2024-03-08T09:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T09:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=22361"},"modified":"2024-03-08T09:48:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T09:48:30","slug":"klopp-plays-down-konate-injury-concern-ahead-of-man-city-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/08\/klopp-plays-down-konate-injury-concern-ahead-of-man-city-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Klopp Plays Down Konate Injury Concern ahead of Man City Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Uh Xh\">\n<p>Jurgen Klopp says Ibrahima Konate&#8217;s injury withdrawal during Liverpool&#8217;s 5-1 Europa League win over Sparta Prague was merely a precaution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Uh Xh\">\n<p>The Reds eased to a last 16 first-leg victory in the Czech capital but there were big fears when Konate pulled up at the start of the second half.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Uh Xh\">\n<p>Klopp claims the injury is not severe but he is still a little bit unsure about the France international&#8217;s availability for the vital top-of-the-table clash against Manchester City on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Uh Xh\">\n<p>The German coach said &#8220;We don&#8217;t know yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Uh Xh\">\n<div class=\"Uh Xh\">\n<p>&#8220;Ibou said to me when he passed me in that moment, &#8216;I thought if I do another sprint then it could be bad.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He should be fine [to play on Sunday] but we don&#8217;t know. Joe Gomez is fine, he has played a lot, the substitution was rotation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So let&#8217;s see with Ibou. His substitution was precautionary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"Uh Xh\">\n<p>Darwin Nunez was the star of the show in Liverpool&#8217;s impressive Prague victory, the Uruguayan striker bagging two more goals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Uh Xh\">\n<p>And the first of them, a right-footed strike from distance, was the 1,000th of Klopp&#8217;s Liverpool reign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Uh Xh\">\n<p>The Reds boss was very complimentary about the striker&#8217;s form, adding: &#8220;He [Nunez] had absolutely more than an OK first season but he had to adapt, that&#8217;s done and now he&#8217;s settled in the middle of the team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jurgen Klopp says Ibrahima Konate&#8217;s injury withdrawal during Liverpool&#8217;s 5-1 Europa League win over Sparta Prague was merely a precaution. The Reds eased to a last 16 first-leg victory in the Czech capital but there were big fears when Konate pulled up at the start of the second half. Klopp claims the injury is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":22367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[469],"class_list":["post-22361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-klopp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22394,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361\/revisions\/22394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}