Liverpool Set To Be Without Alisson, Fabinho In Watford Clash

Liverpool will be without Alisson Becker and Fabinho for Saturday’s Premier League clash with Watford at Vicarage Road.

Having been involved in Brazil’s international fixture with Uruguay in the early hours of Friday morning, the duo will travel directly to Spain ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League tie with Atletico Madrid.

Asked about the situation during his pre-match press conference, Jürgen Klopp said: “The problem with this answer is always when somebody writes it that if I use the word frustration then [it’s], ‘Oh my god, Klopp is frustrated about that…’

“I’m not. We have no chance, obviously; somebody decided to give Brazil the opportunity to play last night, so a few hours ago, and somebody made a decision that we have to play on Saturday at 12.30. It is all not in our hands.

“If we say something, it is always the same people saying the same stuff, ‘Yeah, that’s why you have a big squad…’ That’s all clear, but you have a big squad not for issues with football associations because they put in tournaments – five players have to play there, four players have to play there, but then you still have a league game to play.

“As you maybe know, Atletico is not playing at the weekend, our next opponent in the Champions League. Something like that would never happen here and if it would then it would be like, ‘Oh my god, how can they do it for them?’ and stuff like this.

“So, we’ve known it for a while, we made our decision a while ago, we had to sort quarantine issues and all these kind of things, so the decision we made is the boys will not be here, they will go directly to Madrid, wait there for us and then hopefully be able to play against Atletico. They will come back slightly later than us, 10 days is over then and then they can come back and are in our normal procedure again and that’s it.”

Liverpool take on Watford in an early Saturday kick-off at 12.30 pm, with the Reds in second place with 15 points, a single point behind leaders Chelsea.

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