Klopp on Van Dijk: We'll Be with Him Throughout Recovery

Liverpool's head coach Jürgen Klopp said on Monday that he and the players would do everything possible to support Virgil van Dijk throughout his rehabilitation period.

Liverpool had announced on Sunday that their defender suffered cruciate ligament damage when he was tackled by Pickford in the first half.

“That’s all not sorted yet,” Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com, when asked when Van Dijk’s operation will take place.

“A few things are clear, so he now will be out for a while, that’s clear. We don’t want to set any timeframe, to be honest, because each player is different and each inpidual is different and these possible timeframes are always for the x, y, z player [but] Virgil is Virgil and we don’t want to set any timeframe," he added.

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“But he will be out for a pretty long time and that’s what the situation is. That’s what we know since… I expected it pretty much on Saturday after the game immediately, especially when I saw the challenge back. I saw it the first time only from the bench, and when I saw it back I was pretty clear that he will be out for a long time."

“So we feel now in this moment extremely, extremely for him because most of us were in a similar situation and we know that these situations are absolutely rubbish. You don’t need it. You don’t need it but you have to get over it and Virgil will get over it, 100 per cent, and today is already the first day, if you want, of the recovery," the German coach noted.

“We go already in the right direction and so that’s OK and the rest is football and life, like always a challenge, so see what you get and then make the best of it and that’s what we do now," Klopp explained.