Federico Chiesa was also not in training on Monday due to illness and has not made the trip.<\/p>\n
There was some concern surrounding Alexis Mac Allister, who was withdrawn with an injury at Wolves on Friday, but his issue does not appear serious and he is in the squad, speaking at a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n
Alexander Isak, Wataru Endo, Conor Bradley and Giovanni Leoni are all still sidelined for Liverpool.<\/p>\n
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Sidelined: Alisson will play no part for Liverpool against Galatasaray<\/p>\n
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Hugo Ekitike was rested for the FA Cup defeat of Wolves and should come back into the side on Tuesday. So too were Ibrahima Konate and Jeremie Frimpong, who will both hope to be reinstated to the starting lineup.<\/p>\n
Rio Ngumoha impressed at Molineux, too, and should be in line for another appearance off the bench – if not a start. Florian Wirtz is also available, having come off the bench to face Wolves.<\/p>\n
Galatasaray boss Okan Buruk is lucky to have nearly the full complement available to him. The only player on the treatment table at present is 19-year-old reserve goalkeeper Enes Buyuk, who is yet to appear this campaign.<\/p>\n
Leroy Sane will be available despite being shown a red card for the first time in his senior career against Besiktas. The resultant suspension does not apply in the Champions League.<\/p>\n
Nigeria striker Osimhen, who has scored seven Champions League goals this season, is expected to start up top.<\/p>\n
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Victor Osimhen has scored seven Champions League goals this campaign – including one against Liverpool<\/p>\n
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Galatasaray vs Liverpool prediction<\/p>\n
Liverpool\u2019s previous meeting with Galatasaray came amid a run of six defeats in seven, and Slot will be keen to prove that was simply an extended blip.<\/p>\n
This rare chance at Champions League redemption is a tantalising one, and the Dutchman has the opportunity to show the continent just how much his side have improved, in spite of such limiting injuries.<\/p>\n
Now on a run of seven wins in nine, his much-improved Reds should be confident of securing a victory which they can easily convert to progression in the second leg at Anfield.<\/p>\n
Head to head (h2h) history and results<\/p>\n
Before this season, these two sides had not faced one another since they shared a Champions League group in 2006. The home side won each fixture, both times by a 3-2 scoreline.<\/p>\n
Galatasaray vs Liverpool match odds<\/p>\n
Odds via Betfair (subject to change).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galatasaray, meanwhile, will hope to repeat the trick as they face Liverpool for the second time this season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51605,59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-468094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-galatasaray","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468094","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=468094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}