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Matip limped in Liverpool 3-1 defeat by Borussia Dortmund

Joel Matip's injury to Liverpool's 3-1 defeat of Dortmund was" the most negative thing of the day " to Jurgen Klopp's eyes

The defender was limping 22 minutes before the friendly of the season, three games after returning to play following an injury that cut short his 2017/18 season.

Klopp has said the source of the pain on Sunday was a different complaint that seemed to be a small muscle tear, although the extent of any damage has not been confirmed.

Liverpool 1-3 Borussia Dortmund
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"This is not the same it's another muscle – it looks like, hopefully, on "We'll see, but we can not say more about it now," said the manager at liverpoolfc.com at a post-game press conference. , of course, the most negative thing of the day.This is not cool.

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"Maybe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow we will know more but right now we only know that it was too painful for him to continue. "[19659008] Matip's last appearance in 2017/18 is occurred in March, the central Cameroonian back suffering a thigh injury against Crystal Palace and then undergoing an operation.

He made his return to action during the Liverpool friendly against Bury in July. 14 and resumed against Blackburn Rovers, as the Reds won 2-0.

Liverpool took the lead three minutes after Matip was replaced by Joe Gomez at the International Champions Cup at Bank of America. England. The erica stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday

Virgil van Dijk clinched a magnificent header from the penalty area, provided by Andrew Robertson following a corner by Rafael Camacho

Virgil van Dijk celebrates his goal against Borussia Dortmund

Dortmund leveled the mark in 66th, Christian Pulisic scoring a penalty conceded by James Milner

Both teams seemed to be heading towards penalties until the 89th minute when Pulisic struck again after a counter-attack.

Three minutes into the injury, the Bundesliga grabbed the third goal, this time from Jacob Bruun Larsen's right foot.

"A day like this, you have to stay strong and show your desire or greed to at least want to keep the result at 1-1," Klopp said. "We have to learn from that, it's like that, and then we have to go again."

"I do not want to excuse this result, but we had these situations, we did not use them or not" Dortmund scored a second and a third and it was really too much, the fourth would have been possible after we lost the ball, we could really see the morale drop. "

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