Liverpool manager Arne Slot revealed that he will be forced to line up with a midfielder next to Virgil van Dijk at centre back for Wednesday’s Champions League showdown with Qarabağ after a selection crisis that will surely inform this summer’s transfer business.
Ibrahima Konaté is still away on compassionate leave after the death of his father while the hip injury which Joe Gomez sustained against Bournemouth is set to sideline him for the visit of the Azerbaijani outfit. Slot was hopeful that the versatile defender would only be out of action for “a relatively short time” yet that doesn’t help him for the league phase finale at Anfield. Liverpool are not yet guaranteed of automatic qualification for the round of 16.
