Just as Liverpool’s injury woes appeared to be easing, they returned with a vengeance last weekend. Jurgen Klopp was deprived of eight players for the loss at Nottingham Forest, the eighth match in 2022/23 for which he has been without at least that many members of his squad.
That the Reds have only won two of those games tells its own story and continues a long running trend for the club of struggling to collect points when ravaged by injury. As understandable as that connection is, it doesn’t make games like the loss to the Premier League’s bottom club any easier to stomach.
It was particularly galling not to have Darwin Nunez available. He scored in his previous three starts and had begun to put the disrupted opening of his career in England behind him.
