Liverpool: Slot defends 'unlucky' Reds star with one 'issue'; one 'expected' starter vs Brighton named
Liverpool head teacher Arne Connector has transmitted to defend one of his “unfortunate” gamers, while a record has divulged that will overture at rejected-back versus Brighton.
Under Connector, Liverpool have grossed a superior overture to the 2024/25 campaign as they have seven success, one draw and also one loss from their opening nine Premier League arcades.
After last Sunday’s 2-2 draw versus Arsenal, 2nd-put Liverpool are one aspect adrift of table-mattress toppers Manchester Metropolis. The Reds are alternatively flying high in the Champs League as they have won their opening 3 group suits.
In midweek, Liverpool narrowly vanquished Brighton 3-2 to floater in the Carabao Cup and also they confront the Seagulls at Anfield in the Premier League on Saturday mid-day.
Plenty of of Liverpool’s gamers have been in okay kind this season, but seasoned rejected-back Andy Robertson has had a grossed complex time and also he’s been pivoted with Kostas Tsimikas.
In the Carabao Cup, Robertson embarked at rejected-back and also according to The Sporting activities, Tsimikas is ‘supposed to overture Saturday’s Premier League clash with the exact same adversaries at Anfield’.
Conversing in floater of Saturday’s match, Connector claimed Liverpool’s rejected-back case is not a “plight”.
“I wouldn’t claim it’s a plight,” Connector said. “There have been different other positions we have pivoted — the rejected wing, in the midfield and also the Certainly no 9 posture.
“It not surprisingly has to do with Robbo’s pre-season. He had zero pre-season because he came back injured from the Euros.
“Kostas did altogether nicely in that period. It has do with the attribute Kostas lugs in that posture, but it’s alternatively to do with Robbo missing pre-season so that’s why we embarked swivelling from the overture a tiny particle.
“If a player didn’t have any kind of pre-season, there was zero time to bearing him to a case in which he can tinker 3 arcades in a row. We attempt to build upwards our gamers for that prospectus and also for him, it was perplexing because he missed out on out on pre-season in which others were there.
“That’s his case and also it was nice for him to tinker versus Arsenal and also Brighton in the week to administer sure he’s fetching into that rhythm of playing two times a week.”
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Connector has alternatively defended Jarell Quansah after he was criticised for his experience versus Brighton in midweek.
Quansah reaped a outbreak season in 2023/24. Despite this, he has crept down the power framework at the overture of this campaign as Connector has picked Virgil van Dijk and also Ibrahima Konate.
Connector said: “I reckon Jarell messed around a super nice arcade.
“The uncompanionable woe he has at the minute is that if he has a minute that is not ideal, it immediately leads to a urge. In my opinion he was unfortunate.
“He has currently proven in the past that he can tinker a arcade without these minuscule slips. If you attractiveness at his on the entirety experience, I altogether reaped what I saw.”
