Jurgen Klopp fears that Liverpool’s Covid-19 cases will increase.
Fabinho, Virgil van Dijk and Curtis Jones were all forced to sit out Thursday’s 3-1 win over Newcastle United after returning positive tests before the game.
The Reds suffered a host of coronavirus issues last season, with Mohamed Salah, Thiago Alcantara and Trent Alexander-Arnold among those affected.
And Klopp conceded that more players could be sidelined in the coming days, with a potential knock-on effect for this weekend’s clash with Tottenham.
He said: “This virus is now around us so long that it’s not really likely that it will stay at three, [but] the boys don’t have a lot of spare time to go where they could pick it.
“All of them are vaccinated, they had already the booster, and it still can happen.
“That’s just how it is. But we have a really good chance that the boys get through it now without proper symptoms.
“So far, they don’t have any symptoms – they were more surprised than us that they had it but that’s what you have to accept and that’s what we do.
“Hopefully they are quickly back again.”