Anfield Until The End 16/17

Injury Apocalypse: Sadio Mané, Sheyi Ojo & More!

This isn't as bad as it sounds, promise. Well, depending on your levels of belief that Liverpool is cursed with injuries, it will vary. 

To start, we've got Sadio Mané. At first, it was thought that he'd be out for three months. Or more. Because, and it was thought that he had dislocated it. Then he started taking selfies with fans while driving, which made people think "Does he really have a dislocated arm?" Scans come in, turns out it was just some muscle stuff in his arm. Of course, this means no Burnley trip for him and a better chance for the 4-2-3-1 and Lallana back in the attacking band. But, it's much better than so many months out.

And we get to Sheyi Ojo. If you remember the injury Roberto got to his back, even after it healing, he still mentioned some discomfort. Well, this is practically the same thing. Before, it was thought that he was just feeling a bit of discomfort, as I said before. Maybe they thought the discomfort was getting too long, so they checked it out. Now it's revealed that he had a back fracture and will be out for a month. Hopefully he'll get the rest he needs because if he doesn't let it heal, it will be a resurfacing problem.

Now to good news. Studge and Milner are now able to play and will be in contention to play on Saturday, with Sturridge even willing to play through the pain in order to prove himself. Which, in all honest, he wouldn't have to do if the press wasn't so hard on him for little things like wearing nice cologne. Really, he scores beautiful goals and they worry about that. Feeling gutted for the guy because if he does get injured due to trying to play through an injury, they'll just get all upset again. Hope he can continue strong like when Klopp gave him the mini pre season.

To the best of all, we get to Karius. Unlike the ten weeks or even eight that people expected him to come back by, he's already back in training. The cast is still on his hand, but he's very much close to coming back. Maybe a few more weeks and he could be wearing green again. Or orange. Or even grey, I'm not sure what match he can get back into, but he is farther ahead of schedule than people thought.

The injury list now goes up to Lucas, Sakho, Gomez, Karius, Mané and Ojo. Technically, it had gone down but of course, what goes down must come up. Irritating, but hopeful with the fact that some are coming back quick or smoothly.