Jurgen Klopp has revealed there has been three further positive COVID-19 tests within the Liverpool camp, but believes Sunday’s Premier League game at Chelsea will still go ahead.
Pictures of Liverpool‘s training session seemingly showed that Alisson Becker and Roberto Firmino were among those absent, but Klopp declined to name the trio as they were still awaiting PCR test confirmations.
Klopp says there’s been three new positives within his squad in a further blow to his title-chasing sideGetty 
Training pictures showed some big absentees from Liverpool’s sessionGETTY
“We have three new COVID cases in the team and a few more in the staff so it’s not so cool at the moment,” said Klopp.
“I’m not able to say who it is because we have to do the whole process, get a proper PCR, but you will see the day after tomorrow on the team sheet it will be pretty clear who is affected or infected.
“We never had this proper outbreak where 15 to 20 players had it. For us it is every day, another one, stuff happens more and more often.
“It’s like a lottery in the morning, waiting for the result. It is pretty much day-by-day, always one case, then another one.
The Reds were defeated by Leicester last time out and face Chelsea nextAFP
“We have to wait as the boys are not in yet,” Klopp explained, speaking in his press conference on Friday morning.
“In this moment [we will] probably not [ask for a postponement] but we don’t know how it will look in a few hours.”
In addition to the three COVID cases, Klopp confirmed Takumi Minamino and Thiago Alcantara will miss the trip to Chelsea on Sunday due to injury.
“Taki is probably closer [to fitness], Taki is running outside, Thiago not yet,” added the Reds boss.
“For him it will take a little longer, it is a hip issue but we don’t have an idea where it’s coming from so we have to be patient with that.”
