Liverpool to face leicester city sans emre can, ragnar klavan

Only three games in for the latest season of the Premier League, Liverpool look marred by injuries as they face Leicester City without top five of their first-team players on Saturday.

Manager Jurgen Klopp said on Thursday that Emre Can will not play in the clash against reigning champions on account of his ankle injury. "Maybe he (Can) will be back today or tomorrow

in team training but it will not be enough for the Leicester game," Klopp said.  Ragnar Klavan is expected to join Can on the bench because of his aggravated knee injury. "Another

player with problems is Ragnar Klavan. He had this really unlucky game. He had a bone bruise and a little rip, not too deep, around the knee. We don't need to stitch it but we have to

wait," said Klopp. He also said that Klavan would be assessed before the match. Young star of Anfield, Sheyi Ojo is still in recovery for sustaining a back fracture during pre-season

tour of the US. Defender Joe Gomez too will not be returning to the field The Independent. Meanwhile, Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho does not have to regain the trust of manager Juergen

Klopp following a turbulent few months at Anfield although there will be no quick return to the first team for the France international. Klopp said on Thursday that Sakho would have to get

match fit to be in contention for a recall, having not played in almost five months, but the centre back's recent behaviour would not prevent a return to action in the longer term.

Sakho was suspended in April by UEFA for failing a drugs test, although the case was dropped by European soccer's governing body after his lawyers argued that a fat-burner used by the

player was not on the list of banned substances. The 26-year-old was then sent home from the club's pre-season tour of the United States for disciplinary reasons as he recovered from an

Achilles injury. He turned down a number of potential loan moves, according to British media reports, as the club offered Sakho a chance to rebuild his career away from Anfield.

"It's not a problem. He doesn't have to gain my trust," Klopp told reporters. "He couldn't play football for a long time, it makes sense after a long break to

think, 'How can you can get match time'? Now the squad is like it is, it is about making Mama fit. He isn't. He has had suspension and injury. Now we will see what happens.

It's about who plays now, and then at the end Mama knows and I know. That is enough." Sakho was linked with moves to Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion and Besiktas at the end of the

January transfer window and appeared surplus to requirements at Anfield after the close-season signings of defenders Joel Matip and Ragnar Klavan. Sakho's precipitous fall down the

Liverpool pecking order raised eyebrows among fans, many of whom rated him as the club's best centre back after a series of fine displays prior to his ban last season. "I am not

silly enough to forget good performances but the rest we see," Klopp said. "Now the squad is clear, now it's all good, we have one more good centre half. All good but for him

it needs time."  _(With Reuters Inputs)_