Liverpool star Alisson Becker leaves fans shocked by sudden transformation

James GoldmanPublished Sep 21, 2024, 11:04am|Updated Sep 21, 2024, 11:05am

Maybe it’s a coincidence, but the determination to shave disconnected his iconic beard has coincided with a imaginable wounded setback for Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker.

The Brazil planetary has been an ever-present truthful acold this play and starred successful Tuesday night’s 3-1 Champions League triumph against AC Milan.

Sporting his trademark facial hair, Alisson made respective important saves arsenic the Reds began their European run with an important triumph astatine San Siro and bounced backmost from past weekend’s daze decision against Nottingham Forest.

On Thursday, however, the 31-year-old emerged for a grooming league cleanshaven, overmuch to the devastation of galore Liverpool fans.

‘As if my week weren’t stressful enough, Alisson has present shaved his beard off, what adjacent is beingness anymore,’ bemoaned 1 crestfallen fan.

‘Annual Alisson injury, if helium kept his beard this wouldn’t person happened,’ added different anxious protagonist up of this afternoon’s crippled against Bournemouth.

Another fan, meanwhile, couldn’t judge the quality the deficiency of a beard made to the superstar’s quality and said: ‘Alisson is the lone idiosyncratic who looks younger with a beard what is this man.’

Will Alisson play for Liverpool vs Bournemouth?

Liverpool caput manager Arne Slot, meanwhile, does not judge their fixture database truthful acold is thing retired of the mean truthful has not contributed to goalkeeper Alisson’s imaginable lack this weekend.

The Reds’ No.1 did not look for the conception of lunchtime grooming which was unfastened to selected tv cameras.

Ahead of the sojourn of the Cherries, Liverpool’s 3rd lucifer of 7 successful 22 days, Slot said helium did not judge the demands of the run were presently antithetic and the lone important quality betwixt England and Europe’s different large leagues was the festive fixture list.

‘In Holland we besides person Eredivisie, truthful we (Dutch teams) besides play games astatine the play and besides play Champions League and Europa League truthful we besides play successful the week,’ helium said.

‘There is lone 1 quality and that is the upcoming week erstwhile we play the League Cup truthful until present I’ve not seen thing I wasn’t utilized to astatine my erstwhile club.

‘The Premier League has 4 other games compared to the Eredivisie and besides the League Cup, that’s the main difference, but from the commencement until present I deliberation we person played arsenic galore games arsenic my erstwhile nine and hat’s not an contented for me.

‘But the main quality betwixt the Premier League and each different league successful Europe – and you each cognize – is we person to play during Christmas and caller year. In those moments that is the biggest quality betwixt this league and each the different leagues.

‘AC Milan had to play the weekend, they person to play Tuesday and they volition besides play the weekend.

‘But the spot of the league, the prime of the league, the prime of Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth that is overmuch higher than if you play an Eredivisie squad that doesn’t play for the top-six positions. That is wherever it makes a difference.’

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