Liverpool injury crisis: Jurgen Klopp's list of absentees lengthens for first game against Tottenham
The new boss has already seen his side suffer two long-term injuries before his first game
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Your support makes all the difference.If Jurgen Klopp is to make a winning start to life in the Premier League, it certainly won't have come the easy way.
The new Liverpool manager has barely got through the door at Anfield and yet he has already seen two of the club's most impressive recent performers
First, the young defender Joe Gomez, a summer signing from Charlton Athletic, was ruled out for the rest of the season. The 18-year-old damaged anterior cruciate knee ligaments while playing for Gareth Southgate's England Under-21 side on Tuesday night.
Despite his tender age, Gomez was installed as first-choice left-back by former boss Brendan Rodgers at the start of the season. The youngster applied himself well as part of a back four that kept three clean sheets in the club's opening three Premier League fixtures.
The same injury which sidelined Gomez then befell striker Danny Ings during his first training session under Klopp. The 23-year-old, who is currently Liverpool's leading goalscorer with three, will also sit out of the rest of the campaign.
Ings scored the last goal of the Rodgers era in his side's 1-1 Merseyside derby draw with Everton.
As well as these two long-term absentees, Klopp will be without several first team players when he takes his team to White Hart Lane on Saturday for a lunchtime kick-off against Tottenham Hotspur.
Click on the gallery below to see which Liverpool players are ruled out of Klopp's first game...
As the headline writers have noted, 'Ings can only get better'.
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