Virgil van Dijk suffered an injury in Liverpool’s defeat to Brentford (Picture: Getty)

Jurgen Klopp has confirmed Virgil van Dijk will be out for at least a month after suffering a hamstring injury during Liverpool’s Premier League defeat to Brentford.

Van Dijk, who played in every Liverpool league game this season, was taken off at half-time in Monday’s 3-1 defeat in west London.

The Netherlands defender was sent to a specialist to assess the extent of the injury, with Klopp now confirming the diagnosis is ‘pretty harsh’.

Asked for an update on Van Dijk, Klopp said on Friday: ‘It’s a big blow. He didn’t feel a lot and I took him off just because of the risk really.

‘In the end the diagnosis is pretty harsh. We’re talking about more than a month. Hopefully it goes quick but we will have to see. For now he’s not unavailable and that’s the way it is.

‘For Virgil obvious it’s hard but he’s played an incredible amount of game over the years. We can’t use him on the pitch at least but we will use him off the pitch.’

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‘In the end the diagnosis is pretty harsh.’