Liverpool are primed handy out one other debut, with third-choice goalkeeper Freddie Woodman in line for a begin at Anfield within the Carabao Cup as Alisson stays sidelined.
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Woodman, Liverpool’s third-choice goalkeeper, is about to make his membership debut subsequent week as a part of a rotated aspect for the Carabao Cup tie towards Crystal Palace.
The 28-year-old is “in agency consideration” stories the Mail‘s Lewis Steele, in what can be an unsurprising transfer to keep away from a doable damage to Giorgi Mamardashvili.
Slot has used home cups to rotate his goalkeepers and with Mamardashvili stepping as much as the No. 1 place in Alisson‘s absence, it leaves Woodman to take up the traditional No. 2 duties.
It could not be a brand new transfer for Slot, who handed Vitezslav Jaros his first Liverpool begin at Brighton within the Carabao Cup final season within the absence of Alisson and Caoimhin Kelleher.
Woodman featured for 90 minutes throughout two video games in pre-season however has not performed competitively since Preston’s win over Portsmouth in mid-March.
The magic of home cups!
Right this moment’s Liverpool FC Information
• Jeremie Frimpong has been dominated out with a hamstring damage which Slot says is “going to take some time [to recover],” whereas Alexander Isak and Ryan Gravenberch are doubts vs. Brentford
• Stories in Germany have claimed Bayern Munich held a ‘secret assembly’ with Marc Guehi‘s agent (clearly not so secret). Liverpool nonetheless need him and we don’t want any secret conferences to know that
• The Milos Kerkez vs. Andy Robertson debate has raged on this season and though Slot swerved a query on his choice ideas, he did clarify his new signing has been a “bit unfortunate”
• Kostas Tsimikas has featured simply 5 instances for Roma, and his supervisor Gian Piero Gasperini has defined that his exclusion is right down to “a technical alternative” – not precisely promising (Tuttomercatoweb)
• Mohamed Salah‘s lack of objectives shouldn’t be regarding Slot contemplating his unbelievable feats for the membership – if he may stick just a few away on Saturday that might be pretty!
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Extra from This Is Anfield
The main target of Liverpool’s assault is progressively shifting away from Salah and he should alter to that, writes Keifer MacDonald:
“It’s fairly a distinction to the place Salah discovered himself final season, when he was so central to Liverpool’s plans to win the Premier League that Slot successfully freed him of any defensive duties as a part of a trade-off for his important contributions within the ultimate third.
“This season, although, as Slot seems to place his personal stamp on the Reds, he can be naive to centre his plans round a participant who seems to be bodily declining and likewise dealing with an unsure long-term future at Anfield after signing solely a two-year deal earlier this yr.”
READ: Mo Salah could now not be Liverpool’s foremost man – and he should alter to that
Elsewhere within the soccer world at this time
• Rafa Benitez has made a shock return to administration, taking cost of one in all Greece’s most historic golf equipment, Panathinaikos FC. It’s his fifteenth job as a senior supervisor, fairly the journey!
• Sheffield Wednesday have been positioned in administration and hit with a 12-point deduction, they’re now on minus six factors within the Championship
• Lionel Messi has signed a contract extension with Inter Miami to 2028, he’ll be 41 when the deal ends – let’s simply hope MLS cease utilizing him as a money pig with tickets!
Liverpool FC: On this present day
We could have simply misplaced to Man United, however Liverpool have been dominative over their rivals lately.
October 24, 2021 noticed Jurgen Klopp‘s aspect thrash Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s males 5-0 at Outdated Trafford on an excellent day that noticed many residence followers start to depart at half time.
Naby Keita and Diogo Jota scored earlier than Mo Salah netted a hat-trick as he struck in a membership document tenth consecutive match.
This preceded a 4-0 win at Anfield later within the season, a memorable double!
