Alisson ruled out vs. Chelsea as Arne Slot speaks on Hugo Ekitike injury

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Alisson and Hugo Ekitike were both forced off with injury during Liverpool’s defeat to Galatasaray, and Arne Slot has provided a brief update on the pair. As has, unfortunately, been the case throughout his career, injury struck again when coming out of his goal to stop Victor Osimhen’s effort after Ibrahima Konate‘s mistake.

Slot offered a brief update after the match to Prime, ruling Alisson out of the next match: “It’s never positive if you go off like this, so you can be sure he is not playing on Saturday. He’s definitely not going to play on Saturday.” As for Ekitike, Slot was left to hope he is “not in a bad way” after seemingly feeling his hamstring in what was his sixth start of the season.

The Athletic’s James Pearce reported that Ekitike was “confident he only had cramp in his hamstring rather than anything more serious.” Liverpool travel to Chelsea on Saturday in their final game before the international break, with seven games in 22 days to come on their return. It is the worst record of any goalkeeper in the Premier League, and Slot spoke last season of how Liverpool staff had been “looking into” his history with injuries.