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Liverpool are anxiously awaiting the results of a scan on Mamadou Sakho’s knee amid fears that he may have damaged his anterior cruciate ligament.

The on-loan Reds centre-back was stretchered off early in the second half of Crystal Palace’s 1-0 defeat to Tottenham at Selhurst Park on Monday night.

Sakho landed awkwardly after challenging for the ball and his season appears to be over.

There are no plans at this stage for the 27-year-old defender to return to Merseyside.

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He will stay in London with Liverpool happy for Palace’s staff to conduct the scan later today. All the information will then be shared before a decision is taken on the best way forward.

The worst case scenario is that he’s ruptured his ACL and is facing nine months on the sidelines. That would wreck the Reds’ hopes of selling him for £30million this summer and have an impact on the club’s transfer plans.

Palace boss Sam Allardyce said: “It looks like ligament trouble for Mama, but which one we don’t know.

“We certainly hope it’s not the cruciate but it could be the medial or the lateral.

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“It certainly looks like a hyper-extension of the knee and we wait and see what the scan shows.”

Sakho, who has played a key role in guiding Palace to Premier League safety, has no future at Liverpool after falling out with Jurgen Klopp .