{"id":948164,"date":"2026-05-09T11:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/948164\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:14:15","slug":"arne-slot-explains-florian-wirtz-absence-against-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/948164\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slot explains Florian Wirtz absence against Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Arne Slot explains Florian Wirtz absence against Chelsea\" title=\"Arne Slot explains Florian Wirtz absence against Chelsea\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/florian-wirtz-09052026_a8d6d60aadfefa564d65d4becda3e6f5.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/>Published 28 minutes ago <\/p>\n<p>By Chris Shaw<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Arne Slot confirmed Florian Wirtz was ruled out of Liverpool\u2019s meeting with Chelsea today due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>The No.7 was not included in the matchday squad for the Premier League fixture at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to TNT Sports pre-match, head coach Slot said: \u201cHe tried everything to be in it. But an infection in the stomach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wasn\u2019t feeling well during the week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe tried earlier in the week to train, but in the end things got worse and he wasn\u2019t able to train with us yesterday and isn\u2019t able to be with us today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Published 28 minutes ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 28 minutes ago By Chris Shaw Arne Slot confirmed Florian Wirtz was ruled out of Liverpool\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,12,1144,1042,1047,712,1043,16,15,1048,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-948164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","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-fc","20":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","22":"tag-liverpool-football-club","23":"tag-mane","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-northern-ireland","26":"tag-reds","27":"tag-salah","28":"tag-scotland","29":"tag-the-reds","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-van-dijk","33":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116544331446848886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948164","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=948164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}