{"id":118743,"date":"2025-08-04T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118743\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:44:11","slug":"lfc-squad-update-van-dijk-bradley-alisson-and-gomez-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118743\/","title":{"rendered":"LFC squad update: Van Dijk, Bradley, Alisson and Gomez availability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/virgil-van-dijk-liverpool-fc-130225_721afa75c7acb78269b133d4507674c0.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" 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%\"\/>Published 2 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Chris Shaw at Anfield<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nm5e1u\">Arne Slot provided a Liverpool squad update ahead of the pair of pre-season friendlies against Athletic Club at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Conor Bradley and Virgil van Dijk were ruled out of those games due to a minor injury and illness respectively, while Alisson Becker and Joe Gomez remain unavailable after departing the Reds\u2019 pre-season tour of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Slot told Liverpoolfc.com: \u201cAlmost all of them are fit or stayed fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, Virgil is sick today. We miss out on Alisson. Joe Gomez is not there, Conor Bradley is not there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut until now we have stayed fit as we wanted to be and new signings came in so they got adjusted to what we want. Looking forward first of all to today and then to the next weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slot was also asked if any of that quartet are at risk of being sidelined for the FA Community Shield versus Crystal Palace or the Premier League opener at home to AFC Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirgil normally not,\u201d the head coach replied. \u201cJoe Gomez and Conor Bradley, it\u2019s going to be tight. Alisson will be back in time as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Published 2 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 2 hours ago By Chris Shaw at Anfield Arne Slot provided a Liverpool squad update ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2367,25581,12730,25577,25573,25582,25584,25583,1836,25576,25575,25572,25580,10596,25578,221,62,25574,67,132,68,25579],"class_list":{"0":"post-118743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-klopp","12":"tag-lfc","13":"tag-lfc-news","14":"tag-lfctv","15":"tag-lfctv-go","16":"tag-liverpool-fc","17":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","19":"tag-liverpool-football-club","20":"tag-mane","21":"tag-reds","22":"tag-salah","23":"tag-soccer","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-the-reds","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114971742378121978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}