Liverpool dealt injury blow over Martin Kelly and Raul Meireles
• Kelly out for up to a month with hamstring injury
• Meireles injured knee in defeat by West Ham
Liverpool could be without Martin Kelly for a month after the defender pulled his left hamstring in the defeat at West Ham United on Sunday.
Kenny Dalglish’s side also have concerns over the fitness of the in-form midfielder Raul Meireles who suffered a knee injury at Upton Park.
The severity of Kelly’s injury is not known but hamstring problems rarely clear up in fewer than three weeks.
“Martin has pulled his hamstring and Raul got a kick in the knee,” Dalglish told the Liverpool Echo. “Obviously Martin is more serious than Raul. With a hamstring he might be struggling for next Sunday, though I wouldn’t take it as a given because I wouldn’t know.”
“I would have thought with a hamstring it takes a bit longer than a week. With Raul we don’t know.”