{"id":628151,"date":"2025-12-12T10:54:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/628151\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:54:22","slug":"lfc-fitness-update-federico-chiesa-wataru-endo-cody-gakpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/628151\/","title":{"rendered":"LFC fitness update: Federico Chiesa, Wataru Endo, Cody Gakpo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trio were all absent from the Reds&#8217; 1-0 Champions League victory over Internazionale in midweek at San Siro due to illness and injury.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Saturday&#8217;s Anfield clash with the Seagulls in the Premier League (3pm GMT kick-off), the head coach was asked for the latest on their availability.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at his pre-match press conference on Friday morning, Slot said: &#8220;Federico is not ill anymore. He trained yesterday and he trained today again, so I assume he&#8217;s ready to be in the squad tomorrow again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked for a further update on Endo and Gakpo, he added: &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be weeks. With Cody it&#8217;s a muscle injury and Wata is an ankle injury.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Slot also revealed he will monitor the condition of attacker Alexander Isak after Tuesday&#8217;s game in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;Alex also got a knock in the first half, so let&#8217;s see how he has recovered from that today &#8211; if he&#8217;s able to start tomorrow and, if he&#8217;s able, I make the decision to start them [Isak and Hugo Ekitike] again together, or we do it in a different way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trio were all absent from the Reds&#8217; 1-0 Champions League victory over Internazionale in midweek at San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,179,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-628151","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-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool","20":"tag-liverpool-fc","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","22":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","23":"tag-liverpool-football-club","24":"tag-mane","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-salah","27":"tag-the-reds","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115706230504232523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628151","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=628151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}