Daniel James will not have to undergo surgery on his hamstring, but both he and Lukas Nmecha will miss Saturday's Premier League game at home to Crystal Palace.

The pair are two major injury absentees for the Whites, who will also be without midfielder Sean Longstaff into the new year.

On James: "No surgery so thank God it's a conservative route but we spoke about that it will still be about eight weeks in total that he would be out before he can then return back to team training and then let's see how quickly he is back to full speed and can then join in the games.

"With Sean, he is progressing in his rehab, doing individual stuff on the pitch, also running stuff and also a little bit with the ball but the first step will be for him to be reintegrated in team training and then he needs a few training sessions to be back available.

"He is not back in team training so for that we decided then also from game to game and from day to day.

"Lukas Nmecha is out for the next game so still a bit symptomatic so I have the same group of players available also for this Crystal Palace game."