{"id":187909,"date":"2025-12-12T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187909\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:26:08","slug":"endo-chiesa-returns-for-lfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187909\/","title":{"rendered":"Endo & Gakpo Out for ‘Weeks’; Chiesa Returns for LFC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool will be without both Wataru Endo<\/a> and Cody Gakpo<\/a> for a number of weeks, but Arne Slot<\/a> provided a more positive update on Federico Chiesa<\/a> ahead of Brighton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Endo and Gakpo both missed the 1-0 win over Inter Milan in midweek and there are now doubts over their involvement through the festive period.<\/p>\n

That comes after ankle and muscle injuries respectively, with Slot ruling both out for \u201cweeks\u201d when speaking ahead of the visit of Brighton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, he told reporters in his pre-match press conference that Chiesa would be available again having missed the trip to Milan.<\/p>\n

\u201cFederico is not ill anymore,\u201d Slot explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe trained yesterday and he will train today, so I assume he is ready to be in the squad tomorrow again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liverpool are facing another doubt when it comes to Alexander Isak<\/a>, with the head coach revealing the Swede had picked up a knock<\/a>] early on against Inter.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo let\u2019s see how he has recovered from that today,\u201d Slot said.<\/p>\n

\u201c[We will see] if he\u2019s able to start tomorrow and, if he is able, if I make the decision to start [Isak and Hugo Ekitike<\/a>] again together or we do it in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liverpool short of options vs. Brighton: Frimpong out?<\/p>\n

\"FRANKFURT,<\/p>\n

There was no update on Jeremie Frimpong<\/a>, with it assumed that the right-back is still not fully fit after a long-term hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

Slot also knows he will be without Conor Bradley<\/a> for the clash with Brighton<\/a> at Anfield, having earned a one-match suspension for five yellow cards in the Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A decision will be made on Mohamed Salah<\/a>\u2018s involvement following talks on Friday morning, but if the Egyptian misses out Liverpool could have only 13 senior outfield players available plus youngsters Trey Nyoni<\/a> and Rio Ngumoha<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joe Gomez<\/a> is set to be one of those brought into the side, with further changes expected as Milos Kerkez<\/a> and possibly Chiesa to come in.<\/p>\n

Florian Wirtz<\/a> could also be back in starting contention and could replace one of Alexis Mac Allister<\/a>, Curtis Jones<\/a> or perhaps Isak if Slot opts to switch formation from his 4-4-2 diamond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool will be without both Wataru Endo and Cody Gakpo for a number of weeks, but Arne Slot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[98683,30117,42,38405,43,40,38,41,39,101426],"class_list":{"0":"post-187909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cody-gakpo","9":"tag-federico-chiesa","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-injuries","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-wataru-endo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187909","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=187909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}