{"id":168043,"date":"2025-09-29T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168043\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:07:11","slug":"james-mcconnell-suffers-new-injury-as-7-liverpool-loanees-feature-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168043\/","title":{"rendered":"James McConnell suffers new injury as 7 Liverpool loanees feature – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

James McConnell<\/a> was absent for Ajax over the weekend due to a new injury, but seven other Liverpool loanees featured including teammate Vitezslav Jaros<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McConnell didn\u2019t play for the Dutch giants in their 2-1 home win over NAC Breda after manager John Heitinga said on Friday that he is \u201cnot fit enough to feature.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former Liverpool coach added that the loanee won\u2019t be available against Marseille in the Champions League<\/a> on Tuesday either.<\/p>\n

Jaros however started his seventh consecutive league match for Ajax, making six saves \u2013 five of which were from shots taken inside the box \u2013 as they kept their third-place position in the Eredivisie.<\/p>\n

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Having made his first start for Roma in the Europa League<\/a>, providing the cross for Gianluca Mancini\u2019s winner against Nice, Kostas Tsimikas<\/a> found himself back on the bench at the weekend. <\/p>\n

Gian Piero Gasperini\u2019s side faced Hellas Verona at home and took a first-half lead after just six minutes thanks to Artem Dovbyk.<\/p>\n

The visitors were the better team for much of the remainder but Roma secured their victory through Matias Soule with 11 minutes to play, 20 minutes after Tsimikas\u2019 introduction.<\/p>\n

Back in England, playing for Birmingham, Lewis Koumas<\/a>\u2018 afternoon was brought to a premature end as teammate Jack Robinson, who used to play for Liverpool, was sent off shortly before the break. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This elicited a change from manager Chris Davies, with Koumas the unfortunate player to make way for the team to adapt to 10 men. They ended up losing 3-0 away at Coventry.<\/p>\n

Further down the pyramid in League Two, goalkeeper Harvey Davies played for Crawley and lost 2-1 to Barrow, while in the National League James Balagizi came off the bench in a 1-1 draw for table-toppers Forest Green against York.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere Luca Stephenson<\/a> played 90 minutes on the right for Dundee United as they lost 2-0 at home to Kilmarnock, while across the sea in Ireland left-back James Norris played 60 minutes for Shelbourne in a 2-1 win over Waterford. <\/p>\n

There was another player with Liverpool connections involved in the League of Ireland match, Jordan Rossiter lining up in midfield for the opposition.<\/p>\n

Finally, Harvey Elliott<\/a> started his first Premier League<\/a> match for Aston Villa<\/a>, but he was withdrawn by Unai Emery at half-time as Villa turned a 1-1 draw at the break into a 3-1 win at full time.<\/p>\n

For Villa\u2019s \u00a335 million obligation to buy to kick in, he must make 10 appearances for the club this season \u2013 this was his fourth.<\/p>\n

\u2022 READ: Harvey Elliott accepts Unai Emery criticism \u2013 before being subbed at half-time<\/a><\/p>\n

Liverpool Loan Watch Roundup<\/p>\n

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Injured: Owen Beck<\/a>, Isaac Mabaya, James McConnell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James McConnell was absent for Ajax over the weekend due to a new injury, but seven other Liverpool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,67683,67685,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-168043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-james-mcconnell","10":"tag-loan-watch","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}