Jurgen Klopp twice made positive to heap reward on Wataru Endo after his show at Burnley, however lamented the timing of his emergence as he prepares to overlook a piece of home video games.
Endo made his seventh successive begin for the Reds at Turf Moor and he had the fourth-most touches of any participant (92), gained 4 of his six aerial duels and created two possibilities.
The 30-year-old has stepped up within the absence of Alexis Mac Allister and has thrived, rising in confidence and exhibiting why Liverpool sought him out in the summertime.
It was not misplaced on Klopp that Endo has now discovered his toes within the facet, and the timing isn’t best as he’ll go away for the Asian Cup after the go to of Newcastle.
“I liked his sport, I’ve to say. It’s a little bit of a disgrace he finds his toes and now he goes to the Asian Cup,” Klopp advised reporters at Turf Moor.
“That’s how it’s, it’s nice. What a boy, what a participant. Crucial, however in January we’ve to play kind of with out him.
“However in opposition to Newcastle he’s nonetheless right here after which the boys [Endo and Mo Salah] go away and we’ve to search out one other approach, and we’ll.
“For the second, I’m actually completely satisfied for him. Took him a bit of bit to essentially present how good he actually is, however now we will see it. I’m actually completely satisfied about that.”
Liverpool’s No. 3 will miss, on the very least, 4 matches whereas he captains his nation within the Asian Cup, however a run to the ultimate would see him return in mid-February.
He will likely be an enormous loss for the Reds, and Klopp made that often called he threw Endo’s title into the hat for Man of the Match at Turf Moor – which was finally awarded to Virgil van Dijk.
“By the way in which, Virgil Man of the Match [is] completely nice,” he advised Prime Video. “One other one who might’ve been in competition is Wataru Endo, my god what a sport he performed, eh?
“I’d like to see that sport with out him, that will be actually unusual.”
