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<\/a>Email<\/a>Print<\/a>Open Extended Reactions<\/p>\nLiverpool<\/a> defender Joe Gomez<\/a> was absent from the team’s open training session ahead of their Champions League round-of-16 second-leg tie at home to Galatasaray<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sunday’s 1-1 Premier League<\/a> draw with Tottenham was the third match in succession the 28-year-old had played 90 minutes, the first time he had done so since January 2024.<\/p>\n – Arbeloa’s Real Madrid youth revolution is straight from Pep’s playbook<\/a> Ibrahima Konat\u00e9<\/a>, who had a dreadful time in last week’s 1-0 defeat in Istanbul, could replace him at centre-back.<\/p>\n Head coach Arne Slot would then have to decide whether to continue with midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a> on the right of defence or drop back Jeremie Frimpong<\/a>, who played as a winger against Spurs.<\/p>\n Away from the main squad, \u00a3125 million ($166.9m)<\/a> British record signing Alexander Isak<\/a> — who has been out since December with a broken leg — was running outside as he steps up his rehabilitation ahead of a probable return after the international break later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PA Multiple Authors Mar 18, 2026, 01:45 AMEmailPrintOpen Extended Reactions Liverpool defender Joe Gomez was absent from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-546404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546404","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=546404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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– ‘Difficult’ for Arne Slot to win back Liverpool fans – Jamie Carragher<\/a><\/p>\nJoe Gomez has missed Liverpool’s open training session ahead of their Champions League second leg with Galatasaray.\u00a0Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n