Arne Slot delivers Federico Chiesa injury update before Liverpool’s clash with Palace

Liverpool supervisor Arne Slot has delivered an update on the fitness of Federico Chiesa sooner than Saturday’s Premier League clash with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.

The summer season signing from Juventus has skilled a disrupted commence to his time on Merseyside and modified into once missing from the squad to face Bologna in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Chiesa – who has conducted upright 78 minutes across three matches for Liverpool this season – picked up an unspecified injury before that 2-0 salvage, the severity of which has no longer been disclosed by the membership.

Peaceful waiting to create his first commence in the Premier League, the 26-year-broken-down modified into once an unused exchange against Wolverhampton Wanderers remaining weekend, and his availability for Saturday is quiet up in the air.

Chatting with newshounds in his pre-game press convention, Slot confirmed that Chiesa had arrived for practicing on Friday morning, however he would quiet want to relief and investigate cross-check whether or no longer the Italian is able to note.

Liverpool’s Chiesa quiet uncertain for Palace clash

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“[It’s] wait and see. He didn’t train for the last two days. He came in today to see if he could train and if he can I still have a decision to make because we can only select 20 [players] and he hasn’t trained for a few days,” Slot said.

“But first of all, we have to wait and see if he can even train – and if he can then it’s our decision if we bring him to the game or not.”

Chiesa is upright regarded as one of two injury concerns for Liverpool to contend with for the clash with Palace, as Harvey Elliott stays out with a broken foot and just isn’t any longer seemingly to advance relief before the pause of the month.

All of Diogo Jota, Darwin Nunez and Andy Robertson overcame most recent afflictions to perform in the salvage over Bologna, even though, the effect Mohamed Salah made yet more history in a Liverpool shirt.

By curling in a appetizing 2d, the Egyptian grew to change into the first-ever Liverpool participant to ranking in five straight Champions League home matches, however his contract issue stays an unwelcome distraction.

Slot gives “boring” acknowledge to triple contract inquire

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As issues stand, Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk can all leave totally free in 2025, and barely a single press convention goes by without Slot being pressed for an update.

Nonetheless, the Dutchman had no news to piece on the trio’s eventualities, asserting: “It’s the same boring answer as always, I could really understand it if you asked me once every two weeks but if you ask me this after two, three days again, you still get the same answer.”

Salah, Alexander-Arnold and Van Dijk are all expected to commence for Liverpool once more in the 12.30pm kickoff against Palace, the effect the feeble would possibly well additionally perform yet one other new document.

The Egyptian has netted in all three Premier League away video games so a ways this season, and he will be the first man to create so in a crew’s first four Premier League away matches on just a few occasion, having already finished the feat in the 2021-22 campaign.

Liverpool are one point determined of Manchester City and Arsenal at the high of the Premier League desk and can merely therefore commence up an unassailable four-point lead – no longer lower than for just a few hours – by beating the Eagles at Selhurst Park.

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