Jurgen Klopp explains in graphic detail injury inflicted on Liverpool star by Sheffield United man

Jurgen Klopp has admitted he has never before seen the injury that Alexis Mac Allister picked up in Liverpool's match against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane last week.

Mac Allister had been knocked over by a challenge from Gus Hamer, just as Vinícius Souza was going in for a tackle, which saw the Brazilian accidentally catch the Reds midfielder on the knee.

VAR looked at the incident and ruled no punishment should be given, primarily it is suspected because Mac Allister was already going to ground when Souza stepped in.

The Argentine missed Saturday's trip to Crystal Palace and won't be involved in either tonight's Europa League encounter with Union Saint-Gilloise or the weekend clash with Manchester United.

While Klopp didn't again complain about the tackle by Souza which prompted the injury, he did go into graphic detail about why Mac Allister's recovery is taking longer than expected.

"I am obviously not a doctor but they have explained it to me every single day why he is not ready yet and it's a bit more tricky than we thought in the first moment," Klopp said.

"So the other boy [Souza] stepped on his knee and the stud, the thing under the boot, it went through the muscle pretty much to the bone. So now we have to wait until the bone is healed and until Macca can deal with the pain.

"It's pretty painful and actually Macca is a super tough guy but we have to make sure there is no infection and nothing happens and that is important. So it was a really...I've never had this injury with one of my players before.

"But now we have it and I hope it will not take that long to heal but I would like to say to it is day by day and it looks like he could be ready for the next game but they say he will not be ready for that as well, so I hope the next three or four days he makes big steps and we will see."