Mane unlikely to play Wednesday after suffering injury, says Klopp

Liverpool supporters watched with one eye closed as electric attacker Sadio Mane was forced out of Saturday's Merseyside derby in visible pain with an apparent left leg injury.

The Senegalese star, who opened the scoring with a low left-footed effort earlier in the contest, crumbled to the pitch in the second half after a collision with Leighton Baines, and after receiving treatment and trying to walk it off, went down once more before being substituted.

Mane, 24, got his left leg trapped under Baines while the Everton left-back was making a clearance, and his foot twisted awkwardly.

"When I saw him in the dressing room, it didn’t look like he’ll be ready for Wednesday," manager Jurgen Klopp said after the match. "We will see, hopefully it’s not that serious, but of course it’s not nothing and that makes our life not easier, I would say.”

Klopp refused to speculate when asked about the specific nature of Mane's injury, though.

"Obviously he has pain and it didn’t look like it’s only a knock or a muscle or something, but we have to wait. When I came in I was looking for him immediately and I saw him on the bed. He’d already had treatment, and it didn’t look like he felt really comfortable."

For a side with Champions League aspirations, Liverpool's squad is worryingly thin - and already missing Adam Lallana through a thigh problem.

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If nothing else, the exuberant German manager can call upon Divock Origi should Mane face an extended spell on the sidelines.

That's precisely what he did Saturday, and it paid off handsomely.

Three minutes after replacing Mane, the maligned Origi - who hadn't scored a league goal since December - promptly found the net to give the Reds a 3-1 lead at Anfield.