The Reds host City in a 4.30pm GMT kick-off on Sunday in the Premier League and may do so with Joe Gomez \u2013 who has missed the last two games due to the injury he sustained at AFC Bournemouth \u2013 back in their matchday squad.<\/p>\n
But the meeting with Guardiola\u2019s side comes too soon for Jeremie Frimpong, who was forced off in the Champions League victory against Qarabag because of a muscle problem.<\/p>\n
Slot told the media on Thursday morning: \u201cJeremie will definitely not train this week, so he\u2019s not available for the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Joe, we have a little bit of hope that he might train Saturday. So, not available to start but maybe available to help the team if needed during the game because, as you already know, there are not that many defenders available at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
City manager Guardiola held his pre-match press conference on Friday afternoon and said he is unsure on the fitness of captain Bernardo Silva.<\/p>\n
The midfielder missed the midweek Carabao Cup win over Newcastle United after picking up a knock at Tottenham Hotspur last Sunday and will be assessed ahead of the trip to Anfield.<\/p>\n
When asked if Silva will be available, Guardiola replied: \u201cDon\u2019t know yet, tomorrow training.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruben Dias was an unused substitute against Newcastle after a month out due to a hamstring injury, and Guardiola said: \u201cHe\u2019s back. We\u2019ll see if he will play minutes, but good news for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The City boss also revealed John Stones, who has been sidelined since early December, has returned to training, adding: \u201cJohn made yesterday the first training session with the team and is step by step coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds host City in a 4.30pm GMT kick-off on Sunday in the Premier League and may do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[607,608,59,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,599,604,101,600,56,54,55,605],"class_list":["post-412841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-gb","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412841","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=412841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}