Van Dijk faces late fitness test ahead of Liverpool's visit to Chelsea

Virgil Van Dijk will face a late fitness test ahead of Liverpool's visit to Chelsea this weekend

The defender was substituted early into the second half of the Reds win over Southampton at Anfield, and hasn't trained since.

Speaking at today's press conference to preview their visit to Chelsea tomorrow Jurgen Klopp refused to confirm whether he would be available.

He said: "With Virgil we have to wait. He hasn't trained so far with the team but I can't say any more about that.''

Asked whether their first defeat of the campaign impacted morale in the squad, Klopp said: "It's not cool, it's not what you want. We shouldn't be surprised things like this can happen especially against a really strong side when you don't use your chances."

"Of course, immediately afterwards it's not good but then you have two days in this case to get back on track."

"That's worked so far. We go to Chelsea and try our best again. But in games like this you can never be sure you get the result you want, you have to work for it and once again we try."

Liverpool have won their opening six top-flight fixtures but that will be put to the test in the next couple of weeks as they follow up the Chelsea clash by welcoming champions Manchester City to Merseyside.

In-between they travel to face Napoli in the Champions League in midweek.

Klopp added: "Before we started it was clear that a game against Chelsea at Chelsea will not be a children's birthday or whatever, that's pretty intense."

"Then we go to Naples which is a tough place to go and then Man City coming."

"It's an interesting month, to be honest. But so far, so good and the boys are fully in it and ready to go."