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| AXA football training ground, image Credit: Liverpool FC |
Liverpool shut their training ground on Wednesday due to “different new” Covid cases including a positive test result for partner leader Pep Lijnders, tossing their League Cup semi-final at Arsenal into additional doubts.
Chief Jurgen Klopp and three players — Alisson Becker, Joel Matip and Roberto Firmino — were by then isolating before the most recent immersion of contaminations.
Lijnders, who acknowledged responsibility for the Sunday’s 2-2 draw at Chelsea, later tested positive for Covid-19 late on Tuesday.
The club dropped Wednesday’s pre-match public gathering, at which Lijnders was depended upon to talk, a day going before the first leg of their semi-last at the Emirates.
Liverpool have other staff issues, with various players including Thiago Alcantara, Takumi Minamino and Divock Origi all missing through injury, while Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Naby Keita are now on Africa Cup of Nations responsibility.
“Liverpool Football Club can affirm the head gathering arranging working environments at AXA Training Center have been quickly shut considering a quickly making number of suspected positive Covid-19 cases,” the club said in an assertion.
“The Reds acted to suspend practices inside the work environment today after the most recent round of testing revealed different new conjectured up-sides.”
Liverpool said they had held up an application with the English Football League for the deferment of Thursday’s match in London.
