Liverpool: Klopp assesses Roberto Firmino's chances of facing Barcelona

Jurgen Klopp is confident that the "machine" Roberto Firmino will overcome his muscular injury in time to face Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal in Liverpool.

The Brazilian was surprisingly absent from the match sheet at Anfield on Friday night for the Huddersfield's 5-0 victory over the Reds. Daniel Sturridge led the straight line.

Klopp confirmed that his leader had "a small muscle injury," but speaking after the match, he still expects to call Firmino on Wednesday night.

Responding to rumors that the Firmino season was over, Klopp said BBC Sport: "Do not believe 3% of what's on social media! Roberto Firmino is not absent for the rest of the season. After training, he felt a little bit and this morning again.

'It's a small tear but it's Bobby so I would say he's probably fit for Barcelona because he's a machine. That's good, we showed that we could play without him. "

At his press conference, he added: "He trained yesterday in a normal way. It was not high intensity that we had to work a little more on sets and here and there. I did not see him in training, that's what happened during the last workout and he felt a muscle a bit.

"Now the official diagnosis is that he has a small tear in a small muscle, so aside from the word" tear ", everything else is positive.

"It's Bobby, so maybe he's ready for Wednesday, but we obviously do not know for now, because it's him, it's pretty likely [he will be] that no, but we will see. Of all the bad news you can get, it's about the best, but it's still serious enough that he can not play tonight. "

Liverpool easily defeated Huddersfield on Friday, but his team faced a much tougher test against Barcelona, ​​La Liga leader, and Klopp thinks hard work is the key.

He continued, "We are satisfied with the points we have and we are now focusing on the next game. We have a mindset that works and we try to create problems for each opponent by working hard.

"It's obviously a group of exceptional players, who defended themselves well against a Huddersfield team that is much better than the result showed, they had the appropriate counter-attacks, so we had to show patience and we scored some great goals. "