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title: "Koeman gives injury update ahead of Anfield clash"
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published: "2015-10-23T14:24:12Z"
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# Koeman gives injury update ahead of Anfield clash

Southampton manager Ronald Koeman has given his update on Southampton’s injury doubts coming into the weekend for the game against Liverpool.

Southampton travel to Anfield on Sunday after a disappointing 2-2 draw last week against Leicester and there were a few injury worries coming out of the game.

On-loan ‘keeper Maarten Stekelenburg missed the clash due to a back injury he sustained in training. However, Ronald Koeman has said that he expects Maarten Stekelenburg to return in-goal for Southampton come Sunday and replace Kelvin Davis. Davis played against Leicester and was berated by many fans for his performance.

![Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Sport](https://media.readsouthampton.com/readsouthampton/2015/10/4831633601.jpg)

> He’s looking good.

> He did Thursday, on a day off, a session with Dave Watson.

> He was training normally on Friday and he’s fit for the weekend.

Right back Cedric Soares also went off after an injury to his eye against the Foxes and Ronald Koeman has said that although it is sore, he has trained fine and should play against the Reds.

> It’s not looking good (Cédric’s eye), because it’s still all the colours you can get on your eye, but he can train normally and that’s no problem

Koeman then went on to give his update on the rest of the squad including a slight niggling problem for forward Jay Rodriguez.

> We still have the same injuries what we had last week, with Shane Long. Jay is a little bit struggling with his foot at the moment and we have to wait for the weekend.

> It was a good week. We had two days off, Monday and Thursday. We needed that to be fresh for the weekend.

> Friday and Saturday we will have good sessions.

> We had some players with some physical problems, but it looks like most of them are available for the weekend.