Given Liverpool’s ever-growing injury list during the opening weeks of the season, the last thing they needed was to lose any more players to setbacks. Least of all a midfielder.
With nine senior players currently sidelined through injury, and Darwin Nunez still suspended, Jurgen Klopp ’s squad are down to their bare bones. Yet that didn’t stop them from bouncing back from Monday’s defeat to Manchester United in the most emphatic of manners by demolishing newly-promoted AFC Bournemouth 9-0 at Anfield to claim their first win of the campaign.
Yet amongst the countless positives, there was one cause for concern. The sight of Harvey Elliott limping to take his place on the bench ahead of the second half after being withdrawn at half-time.
