Arne Slot says he could be “surprised” if Trent Alexander-Arnold featured in Liverpool’s Carabao Cup semi-final second leg towards Tottenham, stay on Sky Sports activities, after the defender limped off injured towards Bournemouth on Saturday.
Alexander-Arnold was compelled off with a muscle damage in the course of the second half of Liverpool’s 2-0 win on the Vitality Stadium.
Liverpool host Tottenham on Thursday, trying to overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit.
Talking in his post-match press convention, Slot mentioned: “He (Trent) asked me if he could come off and then he went down.
“He felt one thing, I can not inform you precisely what it’s as a result of it is just now an hour after it occurred however it’s by no means signal if the participant is asking for a substitution.
“I would be surprised if he plays on Thursday but let’s hope he is back as soon as possible.”
Mo Salah’s double ensured Liverpool strengthened their place on the high of the Premier League desk, opening up a nine-point hole on the summit.
“It was the game we expected,” Slot added. “They (Bournemouth) are so intense, they keep running and keep fighting every second. I said before the game, we were 3-0 up at Anfield at half-time and they kept going. We had to play at the top of our abilities and needed luck to win this game.
“They hit the bar or the put up two instances and so they had been continuously making an attempt to drive issues. That they had different probabilities as properly and I do not assume we truly managed the sport. It was an open and even recreation which everybody has right here, as a result of all of the groups wrestle right here.”
The league’s high scorer Salah, as so typically throughout this excellent Liverpool season, was the distinction, scoring a penalty within the first half and a superb solo aim within the second to safe his crew’s seventeenth win of their 23 video games, however alongside the best way Bournemouth put up an actual struggle.
Issues didn’t go the house aspect’s method throughout a primary half wherein they hit the put up, had a aim disallowed and fell behind following a contentious penalty award.
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Liverpool duo Mohamed Salah and Alisson react to beating Bournemouth within the Premier League.
Iraola’s aspect got here at Liverpool early. Alisson was alert to deflect behind Justin Kluivert’s near-post drive following a poor defensive header from Alexander-Arnold, the closest both aspect got here to scoring within the opening 20 minutes, earlier than Antoine Semenyo left Liverpool’s goalframe quaking with a bullet effort towards the woodwork.
It was from a fast transition, the sort at which Bournemouth have excelled this season, that Liverpool received their penalty.
Cody Gakpo appeared to have gotten away from Lewis Prepare dinner because the pair chased an extended ball into the house aspect’s field. The Liverpool participant tripped, although there was greater than a suggestion that he could have stumbled over his personal foot. VAR upheld Darren England’s on-field resolution, and from the spot Salah slipped the ball simply past the dive of Kepa for 1-0.
Slot believes there was no motive for Gakpo to go to floor contained in the field when offered with a transparent goalscoring alternative.
Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring his, and Liverpool’s second aim of the sport
“Online there’s always controversy, especially from fans that are probably not in favour of Liverpool,” the Dutchman mentioned when it was talked about a social media storm had ensued.
“The only thing I can say is, and I haven’t seen it back, is that one of my players is on a clear one-vs-one to the goalkeeper, and he’s falling down.
“So both he makes a ‘schwalbe’… Is that an English phrase? A dive? Both he makes a dive… It is a German phrase. Both he makes a dive, or they contact him, and in the event that they contact him, then for me it is a penalty.
“And if then it would not have even been a chance, you’re always like, ‘yeah, is this really a penalty then?’. But this was such a clear one-on-one chance, that if he touched him, which I assume he did, otherwise the VAR would have probably interfered.”
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Sky Sports activities Information’ Soccer Saturday react to Bournemouth participant Justin Kluivert’s miss towards Liverpool to go stage.
When pressed additional on the first-half incident, Slot added: “I can come up with three, four, five examples where we didn’t have the luck we deserved, or we didn’t get the decision we deserved.
“However that is at all times the tough factor in soccer. If there’s one in your favour, individuals will in all probability inform you, there’s at all times that luck for Liverpool, or for the one which’s primary in the meanwhile. So, yeah, for me, this has nothing to do with luck.
“It’s a clear one-vs-one. And I can tell you if Gakpo goes one-vs-one to the goalkeeper, it’s quite a big chance as well. Yeah, if you are then tripped.
“It’s a penalty and it isn’t prefer it’s a penalty from a little bit push from a set-piece and it wasn’t even an opportunity. So, I would not name this luck except I see it again and I see he did not contact him in any respect. Yeah, then it was not luck, then it was a fallacious resolution by the referee and the VAR, however I assume that that was not the state of affairs.”
