Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will give Mohamed Salah ‘every chance’ to play against Everton despite injury

Salah limped off against Manchester City on Wednesday night

Salah went off injured against Manchester City and could miss the Merseyside derby (Reuters)

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will give in-form Mohamed Salah “every chance” to be involved in the Merseyside derby against Everton and will only leave him out if he is injured.

Egypt international Salah was substituted in the 52nd minute of Liverpool’s 3-0 win over Manchester City in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final as a precaution.

Salah, who has scored 29 goals in the Premier League this season, had a slight groin complaint which made him a doubt for Liverpool’s trip to Goodison Park on Saturday.

However, Klopp insisted he would never simply rest Salah for such an important fixture against their rivals and will only leave him out if he is not fit.

“Of course you can imagine we try everything to make him available,” Klopp said. “Still there are 23 hours to go so let's see what happens. But I cannot make Mo available because it is the derby. I would never do that, it is not possible. You cannot push a player through a game.

“I don't think any of our supporters would want us to do that. If he is a doubt he will not be involved, that is how it is. That is how it is with all of them, if they are not 100 per cent fit they cannot be involved.

“But I would not rest a player with absolutely nothing, absolutely no problem because we are used to playing every three days, that's not the problem. It is always the same decision: you are available you are involved, if you are not available you are not involved.”

When pressed on whether there was a temptation to rotate his squad against Everton because of the significance of the second leg of their European clash with City, Klopp claimed he has not thought that far ahead as he kept his cards close to his chest.

“You cannot do it like this because you have no clue, anything can happen overnight,” he added. “The only way to work in this job is to be focused always on the next game and that is Everton.

“After the game you have to see what you can do with that. I said it before, the next game is never the reason for rotation, it is always the last game so if I think after the last game we have to do this or that I will do it.

“I have not too much to say about it for two reasons: I don't want to give away any information and the other one is we want to wait a little bit. We have a few hours before we go to the hotel and a few more hours until the ref starts the game.

“You will see who is available and who is not available when you see the line-up tomorrow because it is not about rotation we need to find solutions as it always it. I don't want to give too much information away.

“We have already a difficult situation, everyone knows that. We have to consider pretty much everything but we need to have a line-up to give us an opportunity to win the game and that is what we will try.”

Klopp, meanwhile, again condemned the Liverpool supporters who attacked City’s team bus before their quarter-final victory and suggested the incident soured the passion they showed inside Anfield.

“I have to say, again, apologies for what happened before the game,” he said. “It is so strange because you go with your own bus through the crowd and it feels fantastic, it is passion.

“Then you come into the stadium and the first thing I heard is they smashed the bus of Man City and it kills everything in that moment for us.

“You cannot be happy about that, you don't feel it any more. Another good example of that is you give people an opportunity to do something good and because of a few idiots it will maybe never happen again. It changed everything.

“The atmosphere during the game was one of the best I have experienced but these things around changed my view. It is not OK. It is not how it should have been.”