
Liverpool received a fresh blow to their front line on Wednesday prior to their Champions League collision with PSG.
The Reds are on schedule for a hugely successful season under Arne Slot, which look destined to win the Premier League in his first campaign since he replaces Jurgen Klopp as a boss in the summer.
They will also go to the Carabao Cup final in the Carabao Cup next week, while in the last 16 of the Champions League against Paris Saint-Germain they are pulled, with the first stage being played in Paris on Wednesday.
Reds -boss Arne Slot, however, may have to play the game without one of his star attackers after the broad man got an injury to him that could come out of the game.
Cody Gakpo recently returned to fitness after missing two games – against Wolves and Aston Villa – last month, from the bank in the victories over Manchester City and Newcastle.
But lock has revealed that it will be a late call to see if he can appear against the French champions, so that the Dutchman leaves a man light when it comes to his forward options.
'He [Gakpo] Was almost ready to play again, but unfortunately he had to block a shot and he felt pain again, “said Slot for the game. 'We took him to judge tomorrow [Wednesday] If he can be part of the team. It will be a good call. '
Gakpo has been one of the stars of Slot's first season with Liverpool and became the first choice on the left side of the attack.
He has so far scored 16 times in 38 games – also picked up five assists – because he has gone into force under his new boss, but perhaps the collision fog with the side of Luis Enrique.
The 25-year-old was generally one of the first names on the team magazine, in which Mohamed Salah played in the lead on the opposite flank and one of Luis Diaz, Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez.
In the meantime, Slot was accused of telling referee Michael Oliver on Tuesday 'I will blame you if we do not win the competition' during an X-rated tirade after the draw in Everton last month. The manager disputed that he used this dirty language, but accepted the indictment.
But the Reds boss wants to put the incident behind him and said on Tuesday: 'The moment it happened, I was pretty emotional for everything that happened in the last seven or eight minutes and maybe the entire game.
'I chose to go on the field instead of staying calm, staying inside and then talking to Michael. Now I no longer have the same emotions, so I think I should give a better example than I would then and don't go back into the situation.
'It is clear what I wrote and what Michael wrote (in the report). Michael has been quite a lot in the news lately and I don't think it helps if I add something to it now that I have my emotions under control. '
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