A Liverpool delegation has travelled to Paris for Monday night’s Ballon d’Or ceremony, with 5 gamers plus Arne Slot up for prizes.
Reds go to Paris
The Ballon d’Or ceremony takes place at 8pm (BST) on Monday evening, and the Athletic’s James Pearce has reported {that a} Liverpool contingent might be current in Paris.
Mo Salah will not be the favorite for the award – that title arguably belongs to Ousmane Dembele – however he’s among the many contenders.
Additionally on the 30-man shortlist for the principle prize are Virgil van Dijk, Alexis Mac Allister and Florian Wirtz, whereas Alisson has been nominated for the goalkeeping award, the Lev Yashin Trophy.
Wirtz and Van Dijk have already been introduced as ending twenty ninth and twenty eighth, respectively.
As well as, Arne Slot is up for Coach of the 12 months, with Liverpool additionally one of many 5 nominees for Males’s Membership of the 12 months.
The award ceremony, held on the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, is accessible to observe at this hyperlink.
Good luck, Mo!
Learn extra right here
As we speak’s Liverpool FC Information
• Rhys Williams, Jayden Danns, Kaide Gordon, Kieran Morrison and Tommy Pilling all skilled with the primary group on Sunday forward of Liverpool’s sport in opposition to Southampton
• Milos Kerkez has spoken about how he and Andy Robertson have a “actually good” relationship, with the extra senior left-back providing recommendation to the brand new signing – learn extra from Kerkez right here
• Liverpool Ladies returned to coaching on Monday and held a minute of silence to recollect their former supervisor, Matt Beard, who died on Saturday and solely left the membership in February – you may learn Arne Slot‘s tribute right here
• Nicely-placed academy supply Lewis Bower has up to date us on Will Wright‘s current damage, reporting that it’s an MCL sprain that may preserve him out for about eight weeks
Extra from This Is Anfield
Forward of Liverpool’s League Cup tie on Tuesday, Sam Millne went by means of the group information, the rulebook and the published schedule to place collectively all you want to know:
“There might be no VAR in place for the match, due to this fact Thomas Bramall will maintain all of the duty as referee within the center.
“His assistants for the sport are Simon Bennett and Andrew Dallison, whereas Lewis Smith takes on fourth official duties.
“Liverpool supporters have fond reminiscences of Bramall taking cost at Anfield, because the final time he officiated the Reds, they beat Tottenham 5-1 to safe the Premier League title in April.”
READ: Liverpool vs. Southampton: Carabao Cup group information, referee and TV info
Elsewhere within the soccer world at present
• Former Liverpool man Harry Wilson desires to remain at Fulham if he “can get an settlement, his future goes to be” at Craven Cottage, stated his supervisor, Marco Silva
• Chelsea face Lincoln within the League Cup, and supervisor Enzo Maresca has claimed: “These are the video games that fear me most, as a result of you may slip up very simply” – not precisely phrases to strike confidence into your group!
• Bernardo Silva has stated “it isn’t honest” that Arsenal had an additional day to arrange for his or her 1-1 draw on Sunday, attributable to Man Metropolis taking part in on Wednesday within the Champions League following Arsenal‘s Tuesday fixture
Liverpool FC: On today
It was on today in 1993 that God entered the temple and performed in entrance of his topics for the primary time.
We’re, in fact, speaking about Robbie Fowler who made his Liverpool debut on September 22, 1993 and, no shock, he scored.
Graeme Souness was the supervisor to offer the 18-year-old his first sport, because the Reds beat Fulham 3-1 at Craven Cottage in a League Cup second spherical first-leg match.
Ian Rush and Nigel Clough put Liverpool 2-0 up within the first half, earlier than Fulham pulled one again just for Fowler to seal the win together with his first strike for the Reds.
