But the Blues boss provided good news on Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw’s fitness, explaining that the Jamaican is in contention to start against the Reds.
Netherlands international Casparij was substituted at half-time in our 3-1 win over Leicester last time out after sustaining a concussion before the interval.
Due to head injury protocol, Taylor told the media in his pre-match press conference that the right-back will be ruled out for our latest WSL clash.
But he says she’ll be fine to link-up with her Netherlands colleagues during the upcoming international break.
“[Kerstin is] going to be missing from the game at the weekend unfortunately with the concussion protocol.
“But as I mentioned previously, with Naomi Layzell getting back to full fitness that’s a real plus for us in that sense.
“It’s really unfortunate for Kerstin but she’ll be able to go away on international duty and will probably be able to feature for them later in the camp.”
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Elsewhere, Taylor also offered the latest on Bunny Shaw as the Jamaican waits for her first start for City since early December.
Following victory over Leicester in the WSL over two months ago, the striker has returned from a slight injury issue to make three out of our last four matchday squads.
In our previous outing, an FA Cup meeting with the Foxes, she came from the bench to net our third in a 3-1 success, but didn’t travel with the squad to Arsenal in our League Cup semi-final after being subjected to racist and misogynistic abuse following our WSL defeat to the Gunners.
And when asked if Shaw was contention to play from the off against Liverpool on Sunday, Taylor said: “Potentially, yes.
“The conversations we’ve had with her, you never want anyone to go through that scenario she’s been through.
“Our job was to help and support her as much as we could, that’s the team as being teammates, staff and club, it’s really important.
“Hopefully she’s felt that and feels back in a really good place where we’re the ones who are really important for her and will help her in this period.
“She’s feeling a lot better for having this free week to get ready, because everything happened so quickly with us travelling down to London to play Arsenal, it was a critical time and not much time for us to make those opportunities to have those in-depth conversations and understand how she feels.”
