{"id":133734,"date":"2025-09-10T21:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133734\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:41:13","slug":"alisson-makes-nine-saves-as-8-liverpool-players-return-injury-free-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133734\/","title":{"rendered":"Alisson makes NINE saves as 8 Liverpool players return injury-free – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The international break has come to an end for Liverpool with the final eight senior players to return injury-free, though Alisson<\/a> was certainly kept busy against Bolivia.<\/p>\n

Alisson<\/a> remains Brazil\u2019s undisputed No. 1, and despite having already secured their place in next year\u2019s World Cup, Carlo Ancelotti stuck with the 32-year-old against Bolivia.<\/p>\n

The Selecao were odds-on favourites to win, even with the match being played 4,000 metres above sea level \u2013 but Alisson<\/a> had a busy night and ultimately only conceded from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n

Bolivia had 23 shots, 10 on target, compared to Brazil\u2019s 10 and three, respectively, with Miguel Terceros scoring the winner in first-half stoppage time for Bolivia.<\/p>\n

Alisson<\/a> was forced into making nine saves, testing him at every angle as you can see from FotMob<\/a>\u2018s graphic (below).<\/p>\n

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Statistically, he was Brazil\u2019s best player, according to FotMob, having earned a rating of 7.8-out-of-10, but Liverpool will just be happy to have their No. 1 back injury-free.<\/p>\n

He played the maximum 180 minutes over the September break on top of the 270 to start the Premier League<\/a>, and Arne Slot<\/a> will hope his availability continues long into the season.<\/p>\n

Alisson<\/a>\u2018s last injury-free season was in 2022\/23, he played 47 times for Liverpool that campaign for a total of 4,230 minutes.<\/p>\n

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Mo Salah and Co. return without injury<\/p>\n

\"Mohamed<\/p>\n

Mohamed Salah<\/a> concluded his international duties by playing 90 minutes in Egypt\u2019s goalless draw against Burkina Faso, and crucially, he came out unscathed.<\/p>\n

The same could not be said for Man City<\/a>\u2018s Omar Marmoush after he was forced from the pitch only nine minutes into the fixture with a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Salah has flown directly back to Merseyside ahead of the Liverpool squad reuniting for training on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Wataru Endo<\/a>, unused in Japan\u2019s final outing against the USA, will be available to Slot, as will Ibrahima Konate<\/a> and Hugo Ekitike<\/a> after France\u2019s 2-1 win over Iceland.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Konate played the full 90 minutes, whereas Ekitike was introduced in the final minute of stoppage time and thus failed to get a touch after replacing Michael Olise. <\/p>\n

Alexis Mac Allister<\/a>, meanwhile, was deemed \u2018not 100% fit\u2019, but he started and played the full match<\/a> as Argentina drew 1-1 against Ecuador in the early hours of Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Finally, Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a> and Milos Kerkez<\/a> both started in Hungary\u2019s 3-2 defeat to Portugal, with a late goal from Joao Cancelo denying the hosts a draw.<\/p>\n

Although Kerkez was withdrawn on minute 90, there is no suggestion that it was due to a knock or injury of any sort, meaning Slot should welcome back his full contingent on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Liverpool return to action against newly-promoted Burnley<\/a> on Sunday afternoon, the Clarets have won one and lost two of their opening games on return to the top flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The international break has come to an end for Liverpool with the final eight senior players to return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,7886,85],"class_list":["post-133734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}