Jurgen Klopp: It looks like a 'really bad injury' for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Updated 24/04/2018 at 21:31 GMT

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said that it looks like a "really bad injury" injury for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain after the midfielder was stretchered off against Roma.

Liverpool's English midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (C) picks up an injury during the UEFA Champions League first leg semi-final football match between Liverpool and Roma at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, north west England on April 24, 2018.

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Oxlade-Chamberlain, 24, went down clutching his knee following a challenge with Aleksandar Kolarov and he had to be taken off by stretcher.

The midfielder looked in agony and speaking after the game, which Liverpool won 5-2, Klopp admitted that the prognosis was not good.

"Oxlade-Chamberlain is probably a really bad injury," Klopp told BT Sport.

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Liverpool's English midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is stretchered off during the UEFA Champions League first leg semi-final football match between Liverpool and Roma at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, north west England on April 24, 2018.

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"If we can say that already before the scan, that’s never good news so that means for us it’s a massive blow, of course.

"We have still a few very important games to go and the squad doesn’t get bigger in the moment, so we obviously need to be creative in the next few games.”

There will be fears over Oxlade-Chamberlain's participation at the World Cup now, with the midfielder a key part of England manager Gareth Southgate's squad.

Liverpool led 5-0 thanks to braces from Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino, with Sadio Mane also getting on the scoresheet, but Roma got back into it thanks to goals from Edin Dzeko and Diego Perotti.

Anfield, Liverpool, Britain - April 24, 2018 Liverpool's Sadio Mane celebrates scoring their third goal with Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino

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Klopp said after the match that he felt his side were pretty much perfect for 80 minutes and lamented the decision to award the visitors a penalty.

"Long term perfect performance for pretty much 80 minutes or so." Klopp said.

Liverpool's German manager Jurgen Klopp (L) talks with Liverpool's German goalkeeper Loris Karius after the UEFA Champions League first leg semi-final football match between Liverpool and Roma at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, north west England on April 2

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"We made defensively one mistake. The penalty is not a penalty but that is the situation and now it is 5-2. Of course we would have been more happy with 5-0 or 5-1 but 5-2 is a fantastic result. We go there and try again.

"We had all these runs behind, it changed the game completely and they couldn't cope with that. We scored these goals and could have scored more. That is all positive, at this moment it doesn't feel all positive because they scored these two goals but tomorrow I will see the really good part of the game.

"It is absolutely better than I thought before the game but at the moment of course a little mistake."

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