page_title: Joël Matip
section_title: 2017–18 season
hierarchical_section_title: Joël Matip / Club career / Liverpool / 2017–18 season
caption_attribution_description: English: Fernando Lucas Martins, Joel Matip
context_page_description: Job Joël André Matip is a professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Premier League club Liverpool.
  He began his professional career with Schalke 04 in 2009, and was part of their teams that won the DFB-Pokal and DFL-Supercup in 2011. He totalled 258 competitive appearances and 23 goals before moving to Liverpool on a free transfer in 2016, where he won the UEFA Champions League in 2019, starting in the final. He also won the UEFA Super Cup in 2019 and the Premier League in 2020, Liverpool's first league title for 30 years.
  Born and raised in Germany, he represented his father's Cameroon at international level and played for them at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and the FIFA World Cups of 2010 and 2014.
context_section_description: On 1 October 2017, Matip was criticized for his poor performance against Newcastle United, being deemed at fault for Newcastle's goal. On 4 November, Matip scored his first goal of the 2017–18 season, scoring in a 4–1 win over West Ham United at the London Stadium. On 27 January 2018, Matip scored an own goal in a 2–3 home defeat to West Bromwich Albion in the fourth round of the FA Cup. On 31 March, during the match against Crystal Palace, Matip suffered a thigh injury. On 3 April, Liverpool announced that he would have to undergo surgery to fix it, and that he will miss the rest of the season.
caption: Matip (left) playing for Liverpool during a Champions League game against Spartak Moskva, 26 September 2017.
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