By Daily Sports on May 4, 2019
Liverpool midfielder Naby Keita will miss the rest of the season and the Africa Cup of Nations after being ruled out for two months with a groin injury, Jurgen Klopp said on Friday.
The Guinea international had to be substituted during the first half of Liverpool’s 3-0 defeat to Barcelona on Wednesday after going down following a challenge from Ivan Rakitic.
Keita, whose debut season at Anfield has been disrupted by injuries, was beginning to find form and had scored three goals in his previous five appearances for Liverpool.
“It’s bad news,” Klopp said at a news conference. “It’s a high grade abductor injury. The tendon is ruptured which keeps him out for at least I would say two months. So bad news for us, but bad news for Guinea as well because the African Cup of Nations are coming up.
“He was in a really good moment, a really good moment but it happened. Football and life are sometimes not too nice, but yeah very serious.”
Keita, 24, has made 35 international appearances for Guinea and was a key part of the team that qualified for the biennial tournament for the first time since 2015. (ESPN)
•Photo shows Nabil Keita
Source Daily Sports
Posted May 4, 2019
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