Jürgen Klopp has confirmed Jordan Henderson will miss the remainder of the season but will be available to lift the Premier League trophy at Liverpool’s final home game against Chelsea.
Henderson sustained a knee injury during Liverpool’s 3-1 win at Brighton on Wednesday and Klopp feared the worst when his influential captain was forced off. Scans have revealed the 30-year-old does not require surgery, however, and the Liverpool manager is hopeful the midfielder will be available for the start of the 2020-21 campaign.
“Hendo is the best possible of all bad news,” said Klopp. “It is a knee injury but no surgery is needed. He will not play any more this season but I am pretty positive he will start with us the new season. We were all concerned when we saw him going down and he left the pitch and when we got the news it was a big relief for all of us. It is not cool but it is the best news we could get. Hendo is a quick healer and he will be back soon.
“It was an awful moment when he went down and left the pitch we knew immediately. In Germany you would say he is an animal – Hendo fights with everything and if he has pain he will never tell you. He can really deal well with pain so in this moment it was a complete mood killer.”
The avoidance of surgery clears Henderson to lift the trophy on 22 July. “He deserves to lift the trophy and he will lift the trophy,” Klopp said.