Hugo Ekitike injury hint emerges as Arne Slot to offer update on Liverpool striker and Alisson

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"It is never positive if you go off like this," Slot said on Tuesday when he was asked about Alisson. We will see how long it takes but he definitely won’t play against Chelsea." On Ekitike, Slot was unable to offer an immediate diagnosis on Ekitike, but he suggested the Reds were hopeful "he isn’t in a bad way".

"It’s difficult," he said. What you see is, and I think I explained this many times, is that there are a few players from us that missed pre-season so you simply cannot play them every single [game].

Learn more "I like my squad so much but we don’t have 25 or 26 [players], so if we end up with two, three or four injuries, 15 or 16 players, where Rio [Ngumoha] and Trey [Nyoni] are two of these 15 or 16, need to play almost all the minutes and then things can become complicated. I completely believe in this, because if you have 25 it’s very hard to manage your squad.