Jurgen Klopp has confirmed Darwin Nunez was substituted as a precautionary measure because of injury during Liverpool’s 1-0 victory over West Ham United on Wednesday night. Speaking after the match, Klopp revealed the striker had felt his muscle at half-time and was withdrawn early to prevent a possible injury as he explained his reasoning behind each of his substitutions against West Ham.
Jurgen Klopp said: “He felt a little bit of muscle at half-time but it’s all fine. After five minutes, I was just too concerned about the long sprints for him when he stretched his leg. I thought, ‘Come on, we cannot take that risk.’ That’s why we changed. I think we caught him in the right moment. But then we immediately feel it because West Ham are a set-piece team as well. We needed to make sure we had enough players to withstand that so that’s why the other two changes came as well. Early changes, that’s fine. In the end when we changed another two times, we controlled it again. Milly was still flying from last Sunday. We brought it over the line. It’s a Premier League game. I can’t remember an easy game in all seven years and that was for sure not easy but we played well enough. In moments really good, in the end well enough to deserve three points.”
