Fabio Carvalho is a doubt for Liverpool’s Champions League opener at Napoli after becoming the latest Reds player to join the injury list.
Carvalho failed to emerge for the second half of the goalless Goodison derby against Everton on Saturday after sustaining a dead leg in a challenge with Amadou Onana seven minutes before the interval.
The 20-year-old had been handed his first Liverpool start having come off the bench to score a dramatic winner against Newcastle United in midweek.
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And the Portuguese under-21 international will now have the problem assessed ahead of the Reds’ game at Napoli on Wednesday.
“He took a bad knock,” said Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp. “It was extremely painful, a dead leg in the muscle above the knee and he couldn’t bend the knee anymore, the muscles swells up and there is no space.
“We are now to see how quickly that will settle. But you could see he tried but he couldn’t run properly and just made it to half-time and we made the change.”
Liverpool thought they had fallen behind with 21 minutes remaining in the 241st Merseyside derby when former Reds defender Conor Coady touched home from close range only for the goal to be chalked off by VAR for offside.
One Everton supporter ran on to the pitch and confronted referee Anthony Taylor over the decision before being whisked away by stewards, while Klopp was almost simultaneously within inches of being hit by a plastic bottle thrown from a home fan sat near the dugout.
Both supporters have since been identified by Everton and are now facing a ban, with Klopp admitting he was unaware how close he came to being struck.
“I didn’t see it,” said the Reds boss. “I thought it was a glass bottle but it was not. I saw it now because it’s still at the crime scene. It was a plastic bottle. At the moment it looked like a glass bottle and that would have been really dangerous, but it was a plastic one.”
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