Joel Matip out for season with cruciate ligament injury, confirms tetchy Jurgen Klopp

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has confirmed that defender Joel Matip has ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament after suffering an injury in Sunday's win over Fulham.

Speaking after his side won 2-0 at bottom club Sheffield United, thanks to goals from Virgil van Dijk and Dominik Szoboszlai, the German said: "It’s an ACL, ruptured, so that’s what I unfortunately expected from, that’s what it looked like. Very unfortunate, but that’s it."

Klopp accused Amazon Prime Video presenter Marcus Buckland of being "ignorant" after he made a joke about Liverpool's next game being on Saturday lunchtime.

They return to action in less than 72 hours against Crystal Palace for a 12.30pm kick-off, which is one of the German's biggest bugbears when his side have played on the prior Wednesday night.

In a pitchside interview after the game Buckland joked that the Palace game was being played in Klopp’s "favourite kick-off time" but the Liverpool boss did not take it well.

Interrupting, Klopp said: "That’s really brave to make a joke about that. We go home, I don’t know exactly what time we will get home, we will arrive, maybe 1am-2am tonight and then play again. We have two sessions.

"It is fine to recover and then we go again. Crystal Palace play tonight as well so it is really fine.

"I realise you don’t understand it as well and you work in football so why should I explain it again. If you make a joke out of that you are ignorant."

When Buckland said he was not meaning to be disrespectful, Klopp added: "You were already. All good, you can say what you want, I cannot say what I want because that would be really different."

The victory at Bramall Lane, which was his side's eighth game unbeaten, saw them close the gap to leaders Arsenal to just two