Neil Jones provides injury update on Liverpool star ahead of Watford clash

Neil Jones provides injury update on Liverpool star ahead of  Watford clash

Goal.com journalist Neil Jones has provided an update on Liverpool’s star Trent Alexander-Arnold ahead of their Premier League clash with Watford on Saturday.

Trent Alexander Arnold who is in astonishing form this season with 17 assists has sustained an injury during their 2-0 win over Arsenal before the international break.

On the latest episode of the Journo Insight Show of The Redmen TV, Jones, who’s been monitoring Alexander-Arnold’s situation, has ruled him out of the Hornets’ visit.He said:

Trent Alexander-Arnold and Diogo Jota (Photo Credit: Getty Images)

“I don’t think he’ll play against Watford. I think as soon as he did the injury, there were a lot of people who rolled their eyes and said, ‘Ohhh, an injury for Trent, miss a couple of friendlies, does he?!’ It was an injury; he did get a problem. It was in the Arsenal game.

“He would have missed the Forest game anyway, probably. I think it was accepted that Watford – forget about that.”

“Although he’s close to a return, he feels their upcoming Champions League match against Benfica next week might not be worth the risk as Jurgen Klopp won’t throw him in the deep end.

“I think there’s a general feeling that Benfica might not be worth the risk, then you’ve got City, then you’ve got Benfica, City again, so probably the City game [April 10th] seems like a more realistic target. I believe he’s been doing some training this week.”

“We saw him in the break in Dubai. He seemed to have a good view from his exercise bike on Instagram!

“He was getting his rehab in, which can’t be bad. I think he’ll have an outside chance of playing against Benfica, if not City,” he said.

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