Liverpool have spent the week preparing to face Chelsea knowing that a win on Saturday will essentially guarantee them of a top five finish with two games to play but there have been plenty of injury concerns for head coach Arne Slot to try to work around along the way.<\/p>\n
Mohamed Salah, Alexander Isak, Alisson Becker, and Giorgi Mamardashvili have all missed training this week while Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 and Florian Wirtz have trained but not with teammates. There\u2019s good news, though, with all but Salah and Alisson appearing as though they could be available.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlex trains with us again,\u201d Slot noted when asked about the lengthy injury list. \u201cYesterday for the first time, but that\u2019s a positive. Yesterday he did parts of it, so hopefully he can do parts\u2014or everything\u2014today and we will then see how much we\u2019re able to use him tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiorgi will train with us today for the first time so let\u2019s see how he\u2019s going to react, but Alisson not yet\u2014he doesn\u2019t train yet but is very close. Mo also has not trained with us yet but is also very, very close. Ibou had a personal reason and Florian was a bit unwell but trained yesterday also.\u201d<\/p>\n
That leaves long-term absentees Wataru End\u014d, Giovanni Leoni, and Conor Bradley as players certain not to play again in what little is left in the 2025-26 season, which began with a title defence and will end without silverware but likely at least see Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have spent the week preparing to face Chelsea knowing that a win on Saturday will essentially guarantee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[85641,403,99],"class_list":["post-631024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-liverpool-team-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}