Head coach Arne Slot, who is seeking to prevent the club losing a fifth successive match for the first time in 73 years, and midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai were due to address the media at Deutsche Bank Park at 7.30pm local time.<\/p>\n
However, 40 minutes before the scheduled start the club cancelled their press conference as they had not left the country at that point.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur pre-match press conference for the clash with Eintracht Frankfurt has been cancelled,\u201d read a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cA delay in the squad\u2019s scheduled flight out to Frankfurt, due to technical issues with the aircraft, means the briefing will now not be able to take place.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is understood the team was eventually due to take off just over three hours after their scheduled departure, meaning they would arrive in Germany before Frankfurt\u2019s airport closed at 11pm.<\/p>\n
The squad trained at their base in Kirkby at lunchtime ahead of their scheduled trip but midfielder Ryan Gravenberch was absent.<\/p>\n
The Netherlands international sustained an ankle injury during Sunday\u2019s defeat to Manchester United but was able to complete 62 minutes before being withdrawn as part of a wholesale tactical change by Slot.<\/p>\n
Curtis Jones was introduced in his place against United and could play the deep-lying role the Dutchman has excelled in since the start of last season.<\/p>\n
It is likely he will start alongside Szoboszlai, who has been shunted around the team to accommodate other players, with the pair behind an attacking front four.<\/p>\n
Wataru Endo has returned to training after a hamstring injury but appears unlikely to be considered for Gravenberch\u2019s role in Germany.<\/p>\n
Striker Hugo Ekitike looks set to start against the club he left in the summer, along with \u00a3100million signing from Bayer Leverkusen Florian Wirtz, who was also a substitute at the weekend.<\/p>\n
Slot\u2019s big decision appears to be whether to rest an out-of-form Mohamed Salah, as he did in their last Champions League match at Galatasaray, as he seeks to avoid a fifth straight loss \u2013 something which has not happened to the club since 1953.<\/p>\n
Should he do so, Jeremie Frimpong, another player who was playing in the Bundesliga last season, or Federico Chiesa would come into consideration.<\/p>\n
Frankfurt head coach Dino Toppmoller, son of Klaus who was coach of Bayer Leverkusen when they beat Liverpool in the 2002 quarter-finals, played down their opponents\u2019 poor run of form.<\/p>\n
\u201cLiverpool are lacking that little bit of energy at the moment, for whatever reason,\u201d he told a press conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have been the better team in every game they have played recently and have had the better chances. We will face a world-class team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Arne Slot, who is seeking to prevent the club losing a fifth successive match for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,1534,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-136852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-liverpool-football-club","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}