Liverpool Echo<\/a> that he wasn\u2019t all that worried.<\/p>\n\u201cI think it should be all right. It\u2019s not too bad,\u201d he told the press. \u201cI don\u2019t know much yet. We have to check it but it won\u2019t be long.\u201d<\/p>\n
He did suggest this was not a brand new injury, however, but was rather a continued issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been twisting my ankle a bit over the last few weeks,\u201d he continued. \u201cI need to get that sorted out somehow. Then I think I\u2019ll be back for the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n
These estimates, which have not yet been updated in the pre-Chelsea news cycle, suggest Wirtz will be out of contention for the EFL Cup game Wednesday but could be in the squad to face Arsenal on November 1st. Given the strategy and preparations involved, it\u2019s possible we might not learn more until the last minute, with the Liverpool camp not wanting to give Mikel Arteta\u2019s staff more time to prepare should a change of approach be needed in the Premier League match this weekend.<\/p>\n
Arsenal are away to Fleetwood Town on Tuesday for their EFL Cup tie, a matchup that should allow for more rotation than Liverpool\u2019s Premier League opposition will, particularly given the immense depth of Chelsea\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n
In terms of Liverpool\u2019s senior squad, Dominik Szoboszlai is also unlikely to be available to face Chelsea given the recurrence of his injury, and he, too, will likely aim for a return against Arsenal at the weekend. Rotation in the Liverpool midfield and attack is thus all but certain, with a further lack of senior options on the bench to call on late.<\/p>\n
V\u00edctor Mu\u00f1oz, who has been sidelined with an unspecified knock that has been deemed not so serious might return for some minutes against Chelsea. His initial injury came against Brentford, but did not require his removal from the pitch. It appears, therefore, that his fitness is being treated with caution.<\/p>\n
Conor Bradley, Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong, and Giovanni Leoni remain sidelined, with late November to late December the estimates provided for this group, many of whom are returning from serious injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andoni Iraola has provided no further updates on the seriousness of Florian Wirtz\u2019s ankle injury after the issue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[74721,403,99],"class_list":["post-895996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-league-cup","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895996","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=895996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}