{"id":595626,"date":"2025-11-26T19:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/595626\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:27:19","slug":"alissons-surprise-absence-vs-psv-the-reason-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/595626\/","title":{"rendered":"Alisson’s Surprise Absence vs. PSV: The Reason Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alisson<\/a> was a surprise absentee as Liverpool announced their starting lineup to face PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League<\/a>, with the Brazilian withdrawing late.<\/b><\/p>\n

Giorgi Mamardashvili<\/a> has replaced Liverpool\u2019s No. 1 as one of only two changes to the side which lost 3-0 to Nottingham Forest<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

This Is Anfield understands this comes due to illness, with Alisson<\/a> missing his ninth game of the season already.<\/p>\n

Alisson\u2019s late withdrawal vs. PSV Eindhoven<\/p>\n

\"ISTANBUL,<\/p>\n

Alisson<\/a>\u2018s absence came as a late concern for Arne Slot<\/a>, who was otherwise set to make just one alteration to the side humbled by Forest at the weekend.<\/p>\n

It comes after an eight-game layoff due to a hamstring injury, which at least means Mamardashvili is no longer unfamiliar with the players around him.<\/p>\n

Hugo Ekitike<\/a> takes over from Alexander Isak<\/a> in the only other change from Saturday.<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s other tactical tweak: A change at right-back?<\/p>\n

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Slot may, however, have opted for a tweak to his lineup without any further changes in personnel, with Curtis Jones<\/a> expected to take the right-back role.<\/p>\n

Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a> filled in for the absent Conor Bradley<\/a> four days ago but the suggestion is that Jones will instead deputise against PSV.<\/p>\n

This comes with both Bradley (muscle) and Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> (hamstring) out along with Alisson<\/a> (illness), Giovanni Leoni<\/a> (ACL), Stefan Bajcetic<\/a> (hamstring), Florian Wirtz<\/a> (muscle) and Jayden Danns<\/a> (hamstring).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Those absences meant Slot could only name a nine-man bench despite UEFA rules permitting 12 substitutes.<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s group of reserves at Anfield includes goalkeepers Freddie Woodman<\/a> and Kornel Misciur as well as youngsters Trey Nyoni<\/a> and Rio Ngumoha<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joe Gomez<\/a> is not considered fully fit after requiring a painkilling injection to manage a knee injury, while Isak is still working his way back following a groin issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alisson was a surprise absentee as Liverpool announced their starting lineup to face PSV Eindhoven in the Champions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,4884,179,187241,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-595626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool-vs-psv-eindhoven","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115617651139886017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595626","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=595626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}