Liverpool manager Andoni Iraola has confirmed that Alexander Isak and Cody Gakpo are still injured. He recently had his say ahead of Sunday’s crucial Premier League showdown against leaders Manchester City at Anfield.
Speaking during an interview with beIN SPORTS, Iraola stated that while both players are still not fit enough to play, he can only hope his forwards will recover in time to feature in the heavyweight clash.
The Spaniard added that Liverpool’s defensive improvement will help against City’s dangerous attack.
His words, “I think Alex Isak and Cody Gakpo both have had to leave the national teams with injuries. Now it’s a matter of if they are going to recover in time to help us in the next game or not. But right now they are both injured.
We’ve been unbeaten but they’ve won all of them, so it makes a big difference in their side. I think we need to be very, very good if we want to beat City because they’ve been especially offensively scoring a lot of goals lately.
We know the names that are very dangerous. But I think also we’ve shown good defensive improvements lately and I hope we can defend the threats that they have and also hurt them on the other side.
I think the international break is a moment to reflect because we have normally a crazier schedule. You go two, three days preparing the next game.
Then you need, I think, a break, analyse how the season has gone so far. I think we have a good amount of games already to analyse and see the things that we’ve done well and things that I think can improve.
We didn’t have a specific this points [total] or this position or this. No, I think we have to arrive as high as we can, we have to be the best team we can be.
I don’t know where this will put us but I’m sure that if we can give these players a good platform, a good structure, we will be there fighting for the titles, yes.”
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