Jurgen Klopp has confirmed Andy Robertson is set to be sidelined until after the international break as the Liverpool boss offered an injury update on Naby Keita.
Robertson will miss Tuesday's visit from Ajax in the Champions League after picking up an issue late on during last week's 4-1 defeat by Napoli in Italy with Kostas Tsimikas ready to deputise for the Scotland captain.
Klopp revealed that his left-back will miss the rest of the month as a minimum as he delivered a quartet of fitness updates ahead of the Group A clash with the Dutch giants at Anfield.
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"[Robertson is] injured," Klopp confirmed. "Robbo now is not 100%, it was very late, in the 93rd minute or whatever, he actually felt it the next day only, but yes he is out and he is out at least until after the international break.
"Curtis Jones is not available and Fabio Carvalho trained yesterday as normal and will be available."
Klopp also rejected claims that Keita is set to depart for international duty with Guinea for games with Algeria and Ivory Coast later this month, despite an insistence from his national boss, Kaba Diawara, that Liverpool's No.8 could be back in action inside the next fortnight last week.
The attacking midfielder was left out of the Reds' Champions League squad for the group stages earlier this month and Klopp insists Keita won't return until at least October.
Klopp added: "No, I don’t expect him to go on international duty. The expected return date was somewhere in October and that is why we had to make the decision [with the Champions League squad] and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is the same.
"That is why the two boys were not in the squad because the expected return date, which always can differ a little bit, is why we had to make the decision now or last week and that is why we made the decision."
Robertson's issue means he joins a lengthy injury list that includes Keita, Jones, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ibrahima Konate, Jordan Henderson and Caoimhin Kelleher.
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