Ibou Konate is the latest player to be added to Liverpool’s slowly growing injury list.
The French defender had to be substituted in the 56th minute of Saturday’s game at Chelsea.
“I don’t know if it is a big injury, but what I do know is he limped a little bit and when I asked him he said he felt his quad a little bit,” confirmed Arne Slot after the match. “Then, for me, all alarm bells go off because in another sprint you never know if that is going to go good.
“It was also already a substitution I had in mind, maybe for a few minutes or a little bit later, because the right centre-back had a lot of ball possession and we needed to create from that position. We all know Ryan is quite good in that.
“It might be OK that he went off early enough but it was clear I had to take him off because he was limping.”
Fortunately, the international break has come at a good time for the Reds and hopefully Konate will be back to full fitness for the Man Utd game at Anfield on 19th October.
