Arne Slot admits 'uncommon' Liverpool setback as he offers lifeline to out-of-favour star

Alisson is not expected backmost for Liverpool until aft the adjacent planetary interruption successful November, meaning helium volition miss immoderate large games, handing a large accidental to Caoimhin Kelleher to impressment betwixt the sticks

Liverpool brag Arne Slot has admitted Alisson's wounded is "uncommon" with the Brazilian goalkeeper acceptable to beryllium sidelined for the adjacent period - arsenic helium blamed the game's hectic docket for causing much fittingness issues.

Slot's broadside look a immense crippled against Chelsea this Sunday arsenic the Reds bid to enactment apical of the Premier League array aft winning six of their archetypal 7 matches, but received a large stroke aft their first-choice shot-stopper was forced disconnected successful their 1-0 triumph against Crystal Palace past clip out.

Alisson is not expected backmost until aft the adjacent planetary interruption successful November, meaning helium volition miss large games against Red Bull Leipzig, Arsenal, Bayer Leverkusen and Aston Villa, handing a large accidental to Caoimhin Kelleher to impressment betwixt the sticks.

Slot has been near scratching his caput implicit the wounded but believes Liverpool's jam-packed fixture docket has blistery helped the problem.

"It's uncommon for goalkeepers," Slot said up of the Chelsea game. "At Feyenoord I had the aforesaid with my goalkeeper, getting muscles injuries. We are looking into it and what the reasons are. If you get 1 the chances of different spell up truthful we person tried to beryllium careful.

"But besides it's a bully accidental to explicate again, determination were immoderate things astir maine not disliking 12:30 kick-offs but if you play Wednesday evening, it mightiness beryllium disadvantage to play 12:30pm aft Champions League game...the chances for wounded spell up."

He besides handed a lifeline to Kelleher by saying helium mightiness person picked Kelleher to play much games anyhow arsenic helium continues to rotate his squad portion attempting to combat connected aggregate fronts for trophies.

"We request to instrumentality this into consideration. You cannot alteration each 11 players but successful retrospect I mightiness person chose Caoimh [Kelleher] implicit Ali. In Holland, I americium 99.9% definite the Champions League teams get other remainder to prepare. That is not communal present successful England."

Liverpool besides person Vitezslav Jaros and youngster Harvey Davies arsenic goalkeeping options but Kelleher volition get the motion for the foreseeable aboriginal until Alisson returns.

The Irishman has proved helium is simply a coagulated brace of hands, having started some the 2022 and 2024 Carabao Cup finals - with Liverpool winning some connected penalties.

Kelleher has already played doubly for the Reds this season, conceding conscionable erstwhile successful a 5-1 Carabao Cup triumph implicit West Ham, portion helium played 90 minutes successful some of Republic of Ireland's games against Finland and Greece successful this planetary break.

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