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<\/p>\nMarseille will with be without one of its first-team regulars when it welcomes Liverpool in the Champions League tonight, after confirming an injury on the day of the game<\/p>\n
11:48, 21 Jan 2026Updated 12:53, 21 Jan 2026<\/p>\n
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Emerson Palmieri has suffered a thigh injury(Image: 2026 Franco Arland)<\/p>\n
Marseille has given news of an injury blow on the morning of the French club’s Champions League meeting with Liverpool.<\/p>\n
The Ligue 1 club issued a statement which confirmed that left-back Emerson Palmieri will miss the game with a thigh problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cMedical examinations have revealed a lesion to the defender\u2019s left thigh,” the statement said. “The club have not provided a definitive timeframe for his return, stating that the length of his absence will depend on how the injury evolves in the coming days.”<\/p>\n
Emerson is a key player for Marseille, lining up in 21 games for the southern French club since completing a transfer from West Ham on deadline day last September.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Liverpool held transfer talks with Mohamed Salah during AFCON over future<\/a>READ MORE: Jurgen Klopp made feelings clear on Mason Greenwood as Liverpool faces ex-Man Utd player<\/a><\/p>\n Emerson joins Derek Cornelius and Ruben Blanco on the Marseille treatment table, while Bilal Nadir, Nayef Aguerd and Benjamin Pavard are doubts to face Liverpool.<\/p>\n As for Liverpool, it remains without long-term absentees Alexander Isak, Conor Bradley and Giovanni Leoni, while it is not clear whether Ibrahima Konate will be involved.<\/p>\n Konate did not train with his Liverpool teammates on Tuesday morning after returning to France for personal reasons earlier this week.<\/p>\n Considering Liverpool’s game against Marseille is in France, it had been speculated that Konate could link up with the squad in time to play in the European game.<\/p>\n Liverpool head coach Arne Slot would or could not say whether Konate would be involved against Marseille.<\/p>\n “Ibou didn\u2019t travel with us because of family matters,” Slot said. “I will speak at that. I will speak to him tomorrow again. I will leave it with that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marseille will with be without one of its first-team regulars when it welcomes Liverpool in the Champions League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,134,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-382613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382613","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=382613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}