Liverpool v Villarreal: Team news
Liverpool FC faces injury setbacks for key players Jeremie Frimpong and Dominik Szoboszlai ahead of their Champions League match against Villarreal. Manager Andoni Iraola confirmed the players will be unavailable, though Ryan Gravenberch returns from suspension.
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Liverpool will be without Jeremie Frimpong and Dominik Szoboszlai when Villarreal visit Anfield.
Previous Next The Reds host the Spanish club in their third league-phase game in this season’s Champions League on Tuesday night (8pm BST kick-off).
Frimpong and Szoboszlai were forced off during last weekend’s 2-1 win at Brentford and will not be available for the meeting with Inigo Perez’s team.
Andoni Iraola said on Monday that Frimpong may not return until after the November international break, while Szoboszlai suffered a recurrence of the injury that prevented him from taking part in Liverpool’s previous two matches before the trip to Gtech Community Stadium.
“I think they are different circumstances,” Iraola told reporters.
“Jeremie Frimpong is obviously a new muscle injury and it happened, I think, in the second or third minute he was playing, difficult to predict and we will have to wait until he recovers.
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