Liverpool may not have 4 players in the match against Man City on Sunday in the 26th round of the Premier League. This will be a small loss for the red brigade.
The Reds will go to Etihad Stadium in the extremely important match on the Premier League championship journey. Arne Slot’s team has drew 2 in the last 3 matches and will face a revival Man City.
Liverpool is still having an advantage in score compared to Arsenal. But if they were early, they were completely likely to be narrowed by the Gunners and had difficulty in the rest of the season.
Slot will really want to have a positive result against Man City, after defeating them in the first leg at Anfield early this season. However, he will not have 4 players in the upcoming great battle.
In the draw with Aston Villa , Conor Bradley had to leave the field due to a muscle injury when the match was 24 minutes to end. Liverpool is still waiting for the full details of the right -back, but he is expected to be absent from the whole match against City and confronted Newcastle in the middle of next week.
In addition to Bradley, Liverpool’s injury list also has Joe Gomez, Cody Gakpo and Tyler Morton. Gomez has surgery to have a hamstring surgery and is expected to not return until the last week of the season.
Gakpo’s situation is still not sure. The injury he encountered in the match against Everton made the player sitting outside in the last 2 matches of Liverpool. He has not yet returned to training with the whole team and will be scheduled to check his physical examination before the match against Man City.
Meanwhile, Morton had surgery for shoulder injury, causing him to sit out in the next few weeks. This makes Trent Alexander-Arnold and Diogo Jota, who just recovered from injury, will have to plow more.
“We plan to be very careful with the number of minutes of the trent. That is in the situation that Conor Bradley can also play. But now we may have to adjust our plan,” Slot said .
“Both Jota and Trent have just returned after injury, so we don’t want them to play the whole match. It will be a big risk. But with the current situation, there are no other options,” he said. more.