Liverpool's Dejan Lovren set for scan on knee injury
Monday 14 December 2015 09:35, UK
Dejan Lovren is expected to have a scan on Monday evening after sustaining a knee injury in Liverpool's 2-2 draw with West Brom.
The defender was stretchered off in the second half at Anfield following a tackle from Craig Gardner and required oxygen and a leg brace.
Doctors have to wait until the bruising has gone down before performing the scan but could have updates on the severity of the injury on Tuesday morning.
After the game, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said: "It's a hard situation, he hit him full, but we hope it's not too serious. It's a cut, and blue at this moment. We hope it's not too serious."
Gardner caught the Liverpool defender high up his shin but West Brom boss Tony Pulis felt the midfielder played the ball in the challenge, and highlighted two other tackles on his own players that he felt merited closer scrutiny.
"There's two challenges we are very disappointed with, the [James] Milner challenge on Gardner, where it looks a very poor challenge, and then [Martin] Skrtel's challenge on [Salomon] Rondon," Pulis said.
"That's completely over the ball, so I'd look at those two. I think Gardner's challenge, he actually plays the ball. The other two, they don't play the ball."
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