{"id":585239,"date":"2025-11-21T18:49:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/585239\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:49:24","slug":"alisson-in-bradley-and-wirtz-out-liverpool-training-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/585239\/","title":{"rendered":"Alisson IN, Bradley And Wirtz OUT: Liverpool Training News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool will be without two key players against Nottingham Forest<\/a>, but Arne Slot<\/a> was buoyed by the presence of three defensive options at the AXA Training Centre on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Reds had seemingly emerged from the international break unscathed, but Conor Bradley<\/a> and Florian Wirtz<\/a> have since both been ruled out with muscle injuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s right-back is not expected to feature in any of the upcoming seven games in 22 days, but Wirtz is anticipated to return sooner.<\/p>\n

\u2022 READ:<\/strong> Which Liverpool games Bradley will miss \u2013 injury \u201cmiracle\u201d needed<\/a><\/p>\n

The two were, therefore, absent from training on Friday ahead of the visit of Sean Dyche\u2019s side on Saturday afternoon, with an 20-man squad put through their paces on a cold day on Merseyside.<\/p>\n

Alisson, Andy Robertson and Joe Gomez all train<\/p>\n

Thankfully, though, Alisson<\/a> trained as normal and will start for the first time since the trip to Galatasaray in September, with Giorgi Mamardashvili<\/a> returning to the bench.<\/p>\n

Slot told reporters on Friday that both Andy Robertson<\/a> (private reasons) and Joe Gomez<\/a> missed training on Thursday, but both were involved on the eve of the match to squash any doubts.<\/p>\n

Liverpool squad in training pre-Nottingham Forest<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Alisson<\/a>, Mamardashvili, Woodman<\/p>\n

Defenders:<\/strong> Van Dijk, Konate, Gomez, Robertson, Kerkez<\/p>\n

Midfielders:<\/strong> Szoboszlai, Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Jones, Endo, Nyoni<\/p>\n

Forwards:<\/strong> Salah, Isak, Gakpo, Ekitike, Chiesa, Ngumoha<\/p>\n

The Scot is in line to retain his place in the XI after being named in the last four starting lineups, though Milos Kerkez<\/a> is fit and available. <\/p>\n

With Bradley and Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> both sidelined with injury, there is an opportunity for Gomez to seize, though Slot pulled the handbrake slightly when explaining the risk of minutes in quick succession. <\/p>\n

\u201cJoe Gomez<\/a> can play [at right-back], but he has played, I think if I\u2019m correct, two times 90 minutes throughout the whole 2025 year,\u201d Slot said of the 28-year-old. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, if we want to keep him available longer it\u2019s maybe a bit of a risk to play him seven times in 22 days.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lack of minutes for a player with an injury history is worrisome when cover is needed at centre-back and right-back in the coming weeks, putting more pressure on Gomez staying fit.<\/p>\n

Currently, Liverpool have five fit defensive options across their backline, which would suggest Slot will turn to members of the academy in training and potentially in his matchday squads.<\/p>\n

Frimpong was pictured undertaking an individual session on the outdoor pitches in a promising step forward, but he is not yet close to a return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool will be without two key players against Nottingham Forest, but Arne Slot was buoyed by the presence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,9699,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-585239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-training","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115589190735126918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}