Liverpool injury update from Arne Slot reveals ‘quite some issues’ ahead of Chelsea clash

Liverpool brag Arne Slot admits his squad has ‘quite immoderate issues’ aft the planetary interruption and up of a immense clash with Chelsea astatine Anfield connected Sunday.

The Reds person had a superb commencement to the play nether their caller manager, sitting apical of the Premier League array with six wins from 7 games.

However, the Dutchman has immoderate enactment headaches against an in-form Blues side, with Enzo Maresca’s squad not losing since the opening crippled of the league season.

Goalkeeper Alisson Becker is retired until adjacent period with a hamstring problem, with Caoimhín Kelleher acceptable to regenerate him this weekend, but Slot suggested helium had a drawstring of different problems aft the planetary fixtures.

‘Alisson is for definite not with america successful the upcoming weeks, that’s clear, that’s a stroke for him and for america due to the fact that I deliberation helium did relaly good this play and for this nine for truthful galore years,’ Slot told a property league connected Friday morning.

‘Now the bully ting is that Caoimhín did truly good for america successful erstwhile years and this play besides truthful we person a bully replacement but You ever privation each your players available.

‘Now we’ve got rather immoderate issues with players coming backmost from their nationalist teams. And we tin lone justice that perfectly contiguous due to the fact that today’s the archetypal clip they’re each successful and the archetypal clip they are each grooming unneurotic again, truthful let’s spot aft this league wherever everybody is.

‘Macca [Alexis Mac Allister] missed 1 game, played the 2nd 1 [for Argentina]. Kostas [Tsimikas] missed retired against England [for Greece]. I can’t sanction them each but we’ve got a fewer issues going connected and let’s hold and spot wherever we are aft today. [Wataru] Endo arsenic well, helium was sick.’

Liverpool proceed to person the declaration concern of 3 cardinal players hanging implicit the club, with Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold’s deals each owed to extremity adjacent summer.

It would look catastrophic for the nine to suffer each 3 of those men for escaped astatine the aforesaid time, but Slot could connection nary update connected their declaration situations and if immoderate of them are owed to motion caller deals.

‘They were with the nationalist teams, Trent scored a fantastic free-kick, similar you astir apt saw,’ helium said. ‘Same question, aforesaid answer, determination volition ever beryllium talks astir our players, which is simply a bully thing, due to the fact that it means that they bash truly well.

‘If they played severely past you astir apt wouldn’t person asked, it’s a bully happening that everybody privation their declaration to beryllium renewed due to the fact that that tells maine and I besides spot this that they bash truly well. But I cannot archer you thing astir that.’

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