Alisson on track to miss Liverpool's weekend clash in major injury blow for Reds

Arne Slot has confirmed that Alisson aggravated an existing musculus wounded successful Liverpool’s Champions League triumph successful Milan connected Tuesday and has missed training

Arne Slot has revealed Alisson volition miss Saturday’s location clash with Bournemouth if helium cannot bid connected Friday.

Alisson aggravated an existing musculus wounded successful Liverpool ’s Champions League triumph in Milan connected Tuesday and has missed training.

Slot is monitoring the Brazilian’s concern and Caoimhin Kelleher is connected standby to deputise for him successful extremity if helium he does not retrieve successful clip to look Bournemouth. “Alisson is inactive a doubt,” said the Liverpool caput coach. “If helium tin bid today, and if helium can’t, helium astir apt won’t play.

“He has a flimsy contented with 1 of his muscles and we wonderment if this crippled time is coming excessively aboriginal oregon not. He didn’t bash it successful the Milan game, it happened before, but successful the Milan crippled helium felt it much and more.”

Slot besides insisted Darwin Nunez’s assurance has not dipped, adjacent though helium has yet to commencement the Uruguay striker aft his heroics astatine the Copa America.

Slot says Nunez, who has not scored for Liverpool since April 4, is battling Diogo Jota for the Reds’ No 9 relation and that the Portuguese is narrowly up of him.

“No, helium came backmost from the Copa America with a batch of confidence,” helium said. “He has each close to person it everyplace helium went helium people goals. As agelong arsenic helium brings his enactment for the team, I americium 100 per cent convinced helium volition score.

"It’s the aforesaid for him arsenic for each the others, enactment truly hard and past the goals volition come. Darwin is fitter present and understands amended what we expect, but helium is successful contention with Diogo who has done truly well.”

Slot has studied Bournemouth’s show astatine Anfield past season, erstwhile they took an aboriginal lead, and has noted their precocious fightback to triumph astatine Everton connected their past sojourn to Merseyside.

He feels helium has a gameplan to bushed them and has told his players to amended their games “five per cent” connected past Saturday’s daze location nonaccomplishment to Nottingham Forest.

“There was much things successful that crippled we weren’t blessed astir than successful each the different games,” helium said.

“I similar to play against a debased artifact due to the fact that you person the shot a batch and the different squad is acold distant from your goal.

“So normally, with each the prime we have, if you person truthful galore times - I deliberation we had 70 per cent shot possession - successful and astir their box, you would expect america to make a batch with the prime we have.

“So it was a bully infinitesimal to bespeak and accidental what tin we bash better. Although it sounds simple, but if each subordinate plays 5 per cent amended than against Nottingham Forest, which is not that difficult, that volition marque a monolithic change. We tin bash definite things amended and determination are definite runs we person to improve.”

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