Just says he has a minor injury. I feel like loads of players pull out of these internationals with "minor" injuries as a precaution. Still glorified friendlies.
actually koop's position might be the best one for luiz too. fagioli was weaker there for the 2nd half of the cagliari game. luiz with his passing, dribbling and borderline zero defending could do much better there than anywhere else
i still hope koop recovers and luiz can stay on the bench
Funnily enough, if you pay attention to news across all big leagues, you'll see each big club coming out with a statement how several players got injured and how they'll miss the international matches. You can see in Real Madrid, City, Arsenal and pretty much every club chasing the title I think. It's laughable how neither clubs nor players themselves give a shit about the upcoming matches/national competitions during the league. Once the international break is over you'll see statements how they all had a very fast recovery and how they are back on training, starting in the next match.
While we're at cutting, I don't think players are happy (especially those from EPL) about the new CL format as they have more matches there too. I think they will be playing 2 matches per week quite often.