Arne Slot has confirmed the absences of three Liverpool gamers via damage for the Champions League conflict towards Actual Madrid on Tuesday night time.
Earlier right this moment, Paul Joyce supplied Reds followers with combined information from the squad’s coaching session in Kirkby, with Curtis Jones amongst these concerned however Alexander Isak conspicuous by his absence.
Alisson Becker and Jeremie Frimpong are additionally amongst those that missed the weekend win over Aston Villa, with the latter admitting on social media that his present layoff is ‘actually annoying’.
Slot points Liverpool damage updates forward of Actual Madrid conflict
Slot addressed the media on Monday in his press convention forward of the Actual Madrid fixture, and he supplied damage updates on the Swedish striker, Dutch right-back and Brazilian goalkeeper.
The Liverpool head coach mentioned (through liverpoolfc.com): “All three usually are not obtainable for tomorrow. Jeremie and Alisson will each additionally not be obtainable for Sunday [v Manchester City].
“With Alex, we now have to attend and see. He’s undoubtedly not beginning on Sunday, however perhaps he might be concerned within the squad. He’s nonetheless not coaching with the crew, so we now have to attend and see.”
Isak’s damage absence feels notably irritating
It comes as no nice shock to listen to that Alisson and Frimpong gained’t return this facet of the November worldwide break, and though Slot is holding out hope that Isak can play some half towards Man Metropolis, the information on the £125m marksman continues to be irritating.
Our number one has missed the previous 5 weeks via damage, however hopefully the upcoming pause to the season will supply him the time that he wants to be able to be able to face Nottingham Forest in our first match again on the twenty second of this month.
In latest days, Lewis Steele had indicated that Frimpong is more likely to be sidelined till early December, so it at all times appeared extremely unlikely that the Dutchman could be obtainable for the Actual Madrid and Man Metropolis video games this week.
Isak is one other summer season signing to have had a little bit of a stop-start starting to his Liverpool profession, having solely regained full health earlier than incurring a groin downside within the win over Eintracht Frankfurt a fortnight in the past.
Let’s hope that he’ll at the very least be match sufficient to make the bench subsequent Sunday – simply to have him as an choice to name upon could be vastly welcome, notably with the presence of a sure Erling Haaland in Pep Guardiola’s line-up.
