The hopeful news Liverpool was hoping for improvement

So far this season in the Premier League, Liverpool have a total of nine first-team players out of action due to injuries, which have shown signs of improvement in recent weeks and could soon allow the return of some vital elements in the scheme planned by Jürgen Klopp since pre-season, allowing the Reds to regain the consistency they have been looking for.

With the recent additions of Thiago Alcantara, Joel Matip and Diogo Jota to the squad, the German coach's side could well increase their quality of football as each game progresses, as they look to stay afloat until Jordan Henderson, Naby Keita, Curtis Jones and Ibrahima Konate return for an important phase of the season in both the Premier League and Champions League.

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The lack of these key players at Liverpool has generated a moment of tension and bad football as the games go by, being demonstrated not only by the results obtained at the end of the 90 minutes but also by the individual statistics of their teammates, where the name of Mohamed Salah is the most repeated with his poor effectiveness in attack, being completely overshadowed by other stars of the English fair such as Erling Haaland.

One of the best things that could have happened to Liverpool at the start of the campaign was the small respite that the Premier League gave with the death of Queen Elizabeth II, as the lack of activity this weekend against Wolverhampton allowed Klopp and company to save time for injuries and reorganise a scattered squad that has a couple of tough fixtures this week, facing Ajax in the Champions League on Tuesday and Chelsea in the league a couple of days later.

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Looking at each sector of the pitch, Liverpool's injuries are mostly in defence and midfield, with Frenchman Konate and England's Calvin Ramsay expected to return by the end of September, while Oxlade-Chamberlain, Henderson and Keita are expected to make their comebacks in early October, with the Guinean the most doubtful as his injury progress is completely unknown at this stage. Of the list, only Curtis Jones, who suffered a stress reaction in his leg after the FA Community Shield match in July, does not have a specific date of return to the first team.