Ahead of Sunday’s match against Chelsea at Anfield, Arne Slot has given an injury update for Liverpool.
Following the international break, the Reds return to the top of the Premier League standings, but they will face their most difficult test to yet when they play the fourth-place visitors. With games against Arsenal, Aston Villa, Brighton (twice), RB Leipzig, and Bayer Leverkusen coming up, Liverpool’s domestic and European schedule is getting off to a rough start.
Slot is ready to play those games without his best goalie, Alisson Becker. The Reds’ head coach has revealed that Alisson will be out for the next few weeks, meaning Caoimhin Kelleher will fill in goal after the Brazil international sustained a hamstring injury during the team’s 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace before the break. “Alisson will definitely not be with us in the coming weeks,” Slot stated. It’s a setback for both of us. For this club for so many years, he performed incredibly well this season. As I’ve mentioned numerous times, Caoimh performed admirably for us both this season and in prior years, and we have a capable substitute.
Slot acknowledged that Liverpool has some new fitness concerns for the match against Chelsea. Wataru Endo missed Japan’s 1-1 tie with Australia due to illness, and Kostas Tsimikas had a problem while playing for Greece on international duty. Despite missing Argentina’s 1-1 draw with Venezuela, Alexis Mac Allister started the team’s 6-0 victory over Bolivia.
“We can only make an accurate assessment today, and we have a number of problems with players returning from the national teams. Since this is their first training session, let’s check in on everyone. Kostas missed the opening match against England, Endo was also ill, and Macca missed one game. We’ll see.
Due to illness, Federico Chiesa has missed the last two games. For the past month, Harvey Elliott has been receiving treatment for a foot fracture. The Chelsea match is probably too soon, but the attacking midfielder is back to playing on grass.
