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title: "Liverpool: Fans losing patience with Naby Keita after latest injury"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/liverpool-fans-losing-patience-with-naby-keita-after-latest-injury/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Liam Togher"
section: "Liverpool Football Club"
published: "2019-08-14T17:00:34Z"
modified: "2019-08-14T17:00:34Z"
---

# Liverpool: Fans losing patience with Naby Keita after latest injury

**Naby Keita is a major doubt for Liverpool ahead of their UEFA Super Cup meeting with Chelsea in Istanbul tonight.**

Yesterday evening, The Mirror’s Northern Football Correspondent David Maddock tweeted that the Guinea midfielder had left the Reds’ training session prematurely with an apparent muscle problem.

> Looks like bad news for [#LFC](https://twitter.com/hashtag/LFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) with Naby Keita leaving training early here in Istanbul with what looks like a muscle problem….
>
> — David Maddock (@MaddockMirror) [August 13, 2019](https://twitter.com/MaddockMirror/status/1161332194645880833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Keita’s first season at Anfield in 2018/19 was disrupted by injury, limiting him to just [16 Premier League starts](https://www.whoscored.com/Players/243510/History/Naby-Keita) last season.

He [missed four games with a muscular problem last autumn](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/naby-keita/verletzungen/spieler/302215) and was also [ruled out for a spell in March](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/naby-keita/verletzungen/spieler/302215) before a [groin injury caused him to miss the end of the season (via Transfermarkt)](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/naby-keita/verletzungen/spieler/302215).

During the summer, the midfielder [flew home from the Africa Cup of Nations mid-tournament](https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48828030) for an assessment by doctors at Liverpool, with Keita [admitting before the finals that he was not fully fit](https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48608565).

The 24-year-old hasn’t started either of Liverpool’s competitive games so far this season, [coming on as a substitute in the Community Shield](https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1373296/Live/England-Community-Shield-2018-2019-Liverpool-Manchester-City) but [not making it off the bench against Norwich](https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1375927/Live/England-Premier-League-2019-2020-Liverpool-Norwich).

Keita is not the only first team player at Anfield who has experienced injury troubles of late. Alisson has been [ruled out for several weeks with a calf injury incurred in the win over Norwich City](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/360305-alisson-becker-calf-injury-update-latest), while Nathaniel Clyne is a long-term absentee after [rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament last month](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/358081-nathaniel-clyne-injury-update).

These Liverpool fans expressed frustration at Keita’s latest injury concern on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/DavidElliott720/status/1161334048746291201

> It ain't going to work out for us with him. He's made of paper. Plenty of talent but physically and possibly mentally very weak. Sometimes have to run play with pain.
>
> — Ant G \*LFC 20\* (@anthonyjgornall) [August 13, 2019](https://twitter.com/anthonyjgornall/status/1161332750617632769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Filling in sturridge’s shoes.
>
> — Gautzie (@gautzie) [August 13, 2019](https://twitter.com/gautzie/status/1161332414657908736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Needs to toughen up, poor
>
> — Richard Miller (@RmillerRichard) [August 13, 2019](https://twitter.com/RmillerRichard/status/1161341799950168065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Our own Sick Note
>
> — Jón R – Mortensen (@MortensenJonR) [August 13, 2019](https://twitter.com/MortensenJonR/status/1161350517496385538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

https://twitter.com/samijayne1/status/1161386346570768386

> Fine player but getting lallana DNA each passing moment
>
> — Nana (@Nana\_\_LFC) [August 13, 2019](https://twitter.com/Nana__LFC/status/1161333091346108417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Lallana 2.0
>
> — FOX\_IN\_THE\_BOX (@salahlalalalala) [August 13, 2019](https://twitter.com/salahlalalalala/status/1161335114644635649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Picks up a lot of injuries. Alarming regularity
>
> — Steve McVeigh (@Boxingscience20) [August 13, 2019](https://twitter.com/Boxingscience20/status/1161333609476890624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)