{"id":181675,"date":"2025-12-08T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181675\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:45:07","slug":"cody-gakpo-out-for-a-few-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181675\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Gakpo &#8220;Out For a Few Weeks&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ail=\"331386\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/cody-gakpo\/\" title=\"Cody Gakpo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cody Gakpo<\/a> is to spend \u201ca few weeks\u201d out injured, but <a data-ail=\"331386\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/federico-chiesa\/\" title=\"Federico Chiesa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Federico Chiesa<\/a> still has an outside chance of making the squad to play Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Due to injuries concerning Gakpo, Chiesa and <a data-ail=\"331386\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/wataru-endo\/\" title=\"Wataru Endo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wataru Endo<\/a>, Slot has a very thin squad for Liverpool\u2019s match against Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<p>His 19-man squad, which doesn\u2019t include <a data-ail=\"331386\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/mohamed-salah\/\" title=\"Mo Salah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mo Salah<\/a>, features three goalkeepers and 19-year-old centre-back Wellity Lucky. <\/p>\n<p>Not involved are Gakpo, Chiesa and Endo, none of whom trained on Monday with the team. <\/p>\n<p>Slot explained that Gakpo \u201cunfortunately picked up an injury in our last game we played against <a data-ail=\"331386\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/leeds\/\" title=\"Leeds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Leeds<\/a> and he will be out for a few weeks,\u201d but he didn\u2019t go into detail.<\/p>\n<p>On Chiesa, who has remained on Merseyside, the head coach said: \u201cFederico is ill, so that is poor timing you could say, but yeah, it\u2019s not something you can do anything about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are monitoring his situation. If he has an amazing recovery which I, we, doctors don\u2019t expect, he might travel tomorrow but let\u2019s have a fair expectation \u2013 that\u2019s not what I expect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked for further comment on the Italian, Slot laughed and replied: \u201cIt is difficult to be more specific. I don\u2019t know if anyone wants to hear what he exactly has!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he came in this morning, so he\u2019s ill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool squad travelling for Inter Milan<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P2025-12-08-LFC-Training-Inter-27-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - Monday, December 8, 2025: Liverpool's captain Virgil van Dijk during a training session at the AXA Training Centre ahead of the UEFA Champions League match between FC Internazionale Milano and Liverpool FC. (Photo by Jessica Hornby\/Propaganda)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden alignnone size-medium wp-image-331358\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Goalkeepers: <a data-ail=\"331386\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/alisson\/\" title=\"Alisson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alisson<\/a>, Mamardashvili, Woodman<\/p>\n<p>Defenders: Van Dijk, Konate, Gomez, Lucky, Bradley, Kerkez, Robertson<\/p>\n<p>Midfielders: Szoboszlai, Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Jones, Nyoni<\/p>\n<p>Forwards: Isak, Wirtz, Ekitike, Ngumoha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cody Gakpo is to spend \u201ca few weeks\u201d out injured, but Federico Chiesa still has an outside chance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[98683,30117,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-181675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cody-gakpo","9":"tag-federico-chiesa","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}