Joe Gomez and Dominik Szoboszlai injury updates – plus Hugo Ekitike “couldn’t walk”

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I assume many people thought, ‘If you have a defender, if you have a right full-back, why don’t you play him?'” Szoboszlai was another to come out of the game with an issue, appearing to go over on his ankle before coming off in the 83rd minute. After the match, Slot explained: “I think just before I took him off, there was a moment.

I don’t know what happened but I think he hardly couldn’t walk anymore because of cramp.” As a general rule, players ideally shouldn’t be getting cramp with 10 minutes to play in the winter time. “What I see with him and I see this with all the players we brought in this summer, they have to adapt to the Premier League to that intensity,” Slot said.

“So Hugo had cramp today, but I can assure you that he did probably twice as much as in a game in the beginning of the season when I had to take him off with cramp as well, and that is what this league brings. “And I can see the progress with most of our signings, I think almost all of them, maybe all of them.” Due to Liverpool losing to Crystal Palace in the Carabao Cup, they have no quarter-final tie this week and now have seven days until their next match, away at Tottenham on December 20.