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Joel Matip has lost his battle to be fit for the Merseyside derby.

The decision has been taken not to risk the Liverpool defender against Everton at Goodison on Monday night.

Estonia international Ragnar Klavan is expected to start at centre-back alongside Dejan Lovren .

Matip has been hampered by an ankle injury in recent weeks and also sat out last week's 3-0 victory at Middlesbrough.

“It’s just a case of time,” Klopp said last week.

“There will be no surgery, there is not even a risk of it. It is only about resting the injury or not.

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“Try it every day or give it a few days. That is what we already did. Against West Ham it was possible to play but then against Middlesbrough it was not.

“For Bournemouth he was involved in the squad and then we made the decision (not to play him).

“It’s in the moment. It is not perfect because we have no time so you can’t say ‘this game isn’t really important or whatever’."