"Liverpool" coach Jurgen Klopp insists that his team can successfully finish the season even without their injured leader Sadio Mane. The Senegalese forward suffered a knee injury and will need surgery. Therefore, we won't see him on the field for the rest of the season. The loss of the winger could be very painful for the "Reds", as the battle for a place in the top four of the Premier League gets more intense. "I know everyone is talking about how much we miss Sadio Mane and we really do miss him, but he doesn't help us much in defense. And we still create opportunities to score goals ourselves," Klopp said after the 2-2 draw against "Bournemouth". "Again, talking about the second goal, Sadio wouldn't have helped us much in defense, so the impact of losing Sadio wasn't that big." "That's why I felt that way at the end. Everything could have been fine. It could have been a perfect match considering the result - a bad start, coming back with a sick Phil (Coutinho) and tired Roberto (Firmino), all these things." "It could have been a perfect result, but unfortunately, between a perfect result and one that is hard to accept, sometimes there is just one second. That's how it was in this match." Mane has scored 13 goals and provided several assists in 27 Premier League matches this season.
