Origi out for four-to-six weeks - reports
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Updated 21/04/2016 at 18:02 GMT
Reports in Belgium claim that Liverpool striker Divock Origi will be out for four to six weeks with ankle ligament damage.
Liverpool's English striker Daniel Sturridge (C) and Liverpool's German manager Jurgen Klopp (R) look at Liverpool's Belgian striker Divock Origi as he is stretchered off during the English Premier League football match between Liverpool and Everton
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The Belgian was taken off on a stretcher in the second half of the Merseyside derby after Everton defender Ramiro Funes Mori's horror challenge.
Jurgen Klopp confirmed after the game that the 21-year-old's ankle was not broken, but admitted there was the possibility of ligament damage.
And according to Belgian website RTBF that is indeed the case, with a tear in the first ligament of his right ankle.
It is expected that Origi would miss the rest of the season, and crucially Liverpool's attempts at reaching the final of the Europa League.
It also leaves him as a doubt for Belgian's Euro 2016 squad this summer.
The former Lille striker had hit form in recent weeks and usurped Daniel Sturridge as Klopp's first-choice striker, starting and scoring in both legs of the Borussia Dortmund quarter-final.
Origi was pictured arriving at hospital for a scan on Thursday but official news of his diagnosis is not expected until Friday.
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