{"id":416119,"date":"2026-02-09T11:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416119\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:14:13","slug":"liverpool-face-selection-crisis-for-sunderland-after-arne-slot-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416119\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool face selection crisis for Sunderland after Arne Slot admission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dominik Szoboszlai will miss the trip to Sunderland on Wednesday and with no recognised right-back returning, gives Liverpool boss Arne Slot a problem\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

Arne Slot’s right-back woes have increased after Liverpool’s home loss to Manchester City(Image: Carl Recine\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Arne Slot is facing a selection crisis at right-back after Dominik Szoboszlai was suspended for Liverpool’s trip to Sunderland on Wednesday. The Hungary international will serve a one-match ban having been sent off for preventing a goalscoring opportunity when pulling back Erling Haaland during a bizarre ending to the Reds\u2019 painful 2-1 Premier League<\/a> loss at home to Manchester City on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Szoboszlai<\/a>, who opened the scoring with a brilliant free-kick, was playing at right-back with Joe Gomez<\/a>, Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> and Conor Bradley<\/a> all missing injured.<\/p>\n

And with Frimpong and Bradley already ruled out of the game at Sunderland, Slot<\/a> has revealed he expects Gomez \u2013 who sat out the last three games with a hip problem \u2013 to again be absent.<\/p>\n

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OPINION<\/p>\n

\"AuthorIan Doyle\"\"<\/p>\n

OPINION<\/p>\n

\"AuthorIan Doyle<\/p>\n

\u201cJeremie for sure not,\u201d said the Reds boss. \u201cWe knew that when he got injured, it was a few weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t expect Joe back for Wednesday, but you never know. Then he is back from being out for three weeks, would you play him now? I have to make that decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s see what decision we make. We have other players that can play that position as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cDom played very well in that position again, but unfortunately, he is unavailable for Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wataru Endo<\/a> played almost the full 90 minutes when replacing the injured Frimpong during the 6-0 Champions League<\/a> romp against Qarabag a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n

Calvin Ramsay<\/a>, who has been on the bench in recent weeks, started the League Cup<\/a> home loss to Crystal Palace in October but has yet to feature in the Premier League almost four years after being signed from Aberdeen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominik Szoboszlai will miss the trip to Sunderland on Wednesday and with no recognised right-back returning, gives Liverpool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1969,2628,49,134,2502,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-416119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arne-slot","tag-barclays-premier-league","tag-headlines","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-manchester-city-fc","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416119","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=416119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}