Three more liverpool players have contracted Covid-19 and will be missing from their teamsheet in their peer with Chelsea on Sunday. ( 0:42 ) Three Liverpool players and more staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the trip to Chelsea but it is besides soon to ask the Premier League to postpone the bet on, director Jurgen Klopp said on Friday. The league has postponed 18 games so far due to a mix of COVID-19 outbreaks and injuries at several clubs, leaving them without enough players to fulfil fixtures. “ We have three new COVID cases in the team and a few more in the staff, so it ‘s not indeed cool at the moment, ” Klopp told reporters ahead of Sunday ‘s plot in London.

– Notebook: The inside stories from around the world “ I ‘m not [ able to reveal who tested convinced ] because we have to go through the whole process, PCR [ tests ], but you will see the day after tomorrow on the team sail, it will be open who is affected. ” When asked if Liverpool would have to ask for the game to be postponed, Klopp said : “ not even, but we do n’t know. We never had an outbreak where 10-15 players had it. “ For us, it ‘s more every day another one [ tests cocksure ] … it feels like a lottery in the morning. It ‘s day by day another case. We do n’t know how it will look in a few hours. ” Liverpool ‘s Virgil avant-garde Dijk, Thiago Alcantara, Fabinho and Curtis Jones had returned to training earlier this week after going into isolation due to positive COVID-19 tests.

Klopp added that Thiago and Takumi Minamino, who missed the midweek loss at Leicester City due to muscle discomfort, were not so far fit to play .Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp said he didn’t know if the Chelsea game would be postponed. Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images “ Taki is credibly closer, he ‘s running outside. Thiago not yet, ” he said. “ It might take a little longer, a hip issue — we have no theme where it ‘s coming from. We have to be a little bite affected role. ” Third-placed Liverpool are one point behind Chelsea, who are second gear, with a game in bridge player. Leaders Manchester City are eight points ahead of Chelsea and Klopp said that despite their goodly advantage center through the temper there was still a lot to play for.

“ When you have this kind of close [ style ] fight, specially with a consistent team like City who are n’t fazed by COVID or injuries — they ‘re in a good moment — but you can not win the league by rights in the winter. It ‘s improbable, ” Klopp said. “ But what they [ City ] have now is a gap, it ‘s absolutely deserved for them, but let ‘s just give it a die. entirely one team can be champions. “ There ‘s a decisive moment in April, there you have to be close enough to give it a proper fail. We ‘ll see where we are then. From now to then … so many games to play, indeed many different competitions to play. ”