Arne Slot reveals Alisson injury concern ahead of Liverpool’s clash with Bournemouth

Tom OlverPublished Sep 20, 2024, 10:17am|Updated Sep 20, 2024, 10:21am

Liverpool caput manager Arne Slot says Alisson is simply a uncertainty for the side’s upcoming Premier League clash with Bournemouth owed to a musculus injury.

Alisson has started each 4 of Liverpool’s top-flight matches this play and played the afloat 90 minutes of the Merseyside giants’ 3-1 triumph implicit AC Milan successful the Champions League connected Tuesday night.

The 31-year-old goalkeeper complained of a musculus contented anterior to the triumph but played done the discomfort arsenic goals from Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk and Dominik Szoboszlai got Liverpool’s European run disconnected to the cleanable commencement astatine the San Siro.

Caoimhin Kelleher volition apt deputise for Alisson betwixt the sticks should the Brazilian beryllium ruled retired of the Reds’ brushwood with Andoni Iraola’s Bournemouth astatine Anfield connected Saturday afternoon.

A muscular occupation kept Alisson sidelined for 12 days midway done past play and the shot-stopper was absent for astir 2 months with a hamstring wounded from mid-February done to April.

‘Alisson is simply a uncertainty to spot if helium tin bid contiguous and if helium can’t, past helium volition astir apt not play,’ Slot told reporters astatine his pre-match property league this morning.

‘We volition person to hold and see.’

Slot refused to regularisation Alisson retired of this weekend’s contention but indicated that Liverpool were reluctant to unreserved the Brazil planetary backmost excessively soon and hazard further injury.

‘He has a flimsy contented with 1 of his muscles. We wonderment if this crippled time is coming excessively aboriginal oregon not,’ the Dutchman added.

‘He didn’t bash it successful the Milan game, helium felt it earlier and past helium felt it much and more.

‘Now we person to spot if he’s acceptable for the weekend.’

Liverpool suffered their archetypal setback of the play past clip retired successful the Premier League arsenic a stunning Callum Hudson-Odoi extremity consigned Slot’s men to a 1-0 decision astatine location to Nottingham Forest.

‘There were much things that we weren’t blessed astir than each the different games we’ve played,’ Slot explained.

‘I similar to play against a debased artifact really arsenic you person much shot possession.’

According to Slot, Liverpool’s players indispensable ‘do better’ successful each aspects of their crippled to guarantee fans ‘get down the team’ arsenic they look to bounce backmost from their disappointing nonaccomplishment to Forest.

‘My lone protestation was astir however we played, we arsenic a squad person to beryllium alert that fans request thing to get down the squad and I don’t deliberation we did that enough,’ helium continued.

‘If we don’t amusement up capable possibly that tin assistance america if it looks similar it mightiness not beryllium our day, but I similar to look astatine ourselves – if we bash amended than the fans volition bask what they see.

‘It starts with america doing amended tomorrow. But possibly the fans tin springiness america an other push.’

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