Alisson injury leaves door open for Dream Team bosses to back bargain option Caoimhin Kelleher

LIVERPOOL are expected to beryllium without first-choice goalkeeper Alisson (£5m) for the adjacent period astatine least.

The Brazil planetary was substituted successful the 79th infinitesimal against Crystal Palace past Saturday and it has since been confirmed helium suffered yet different hamstring wounded which is apt to sideline him until the November planetary break.

Alisson is presently ranked 2nd among Dream Team goalkeepers with 51 points to his name, conscionable 4 shy of person David Raya (£5.1m).

But gaffers backing the 32-year-old volition person to look elsewhere with the Reds acceptable to fulfil 7 fixtures betwixt Gameweeks 8 and 11, earlier different acceptable of planetary games.

Vitezslav Jaros replaced Alisson astatine Selhurst Park successful Gameweek 7 and the young Czech keeper made a captious prevention to sphere Liverpool's cleanable expanse to guarantee they near South London with 3 points.

However, Caoimhin Kelleher (£2.3m), who was injured past weekend, is expected to beryllium named arsenic starting keeper for the adjacent period oregon so.

The Republic of Ireland planetary enjoyed an awesome tally successful the squad past play erstwhile Alisson was sidelined and galore Dream Team managers volition beryllium tempted to enlistee him during the existent planetary interruption with a presumption to acquiring immoderate short-term gains.

This strategy is peculiarly appealing due to the fact that the 25-year-old is disposable astatine specified a debased price, connected relationship of him being a second-string enactment ordinarily.

Kelleher has earned 13 points from conscionable 2 appearances truthful acold successful 2024/25, including an awesome ten-point haul against Bournemouth that featured 7 saves and a cleanable sheet.

Dream Team bosses would ne'er privation wounded connected immoderate player, of course, but there's nary uncertainty a second-choice keeper temporarily rising up the pecking bid represents a important opportunity.

That being said, Arne Slot's broadside look a comparatively hard tally of fixtures crossed the adjacent 4 Gameweeks.

LIVERPOOL'S FIXTURES FROM GAMEWEEK 8 TO 11:

• Chelsea (h) - Premier League
• RB Leipzig (a) - Champions League
• Arsenal (a) - Premier League
• Brighton (a) - Carabao Cup
• Brighton (h) - Premier League
• Bayer Leverkusen (h) - Champions League
• Aston Villa (h) - Premier League

All the supra home opponents presently reside successful the apical six of the array portion RB Leipzig are level connected points with Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich.

As the lone English broadside to person won six of their archetypal 7 league games, Liverpool person been a affluent root of Dream Team points to this signifier but they whitethorn find cleanable sheets harder to travel aft the break.

However, astatine £2.3m galore volition deem Kelleher worthy of a punt and it's hard to reason against specified a ploy; it's conscionable that the trouble of their upcoming docket means it's not a implicit no-brainer.

Gaffers who spell down this way volition besides person to earmark a furture transportation to regenerate Kelleher erstwhile Alisson is disposable again astatine the extremity of November oregon aboriginal December.

Still, he's a tempting enactment for sure...