Arne Slot has confirmed one member of Liverpool’s beginning XI for his or her Carabao Cup quarter-final in opposition to Southampton on Wednesday night time.
The Reds boss is more likely to make a number of modifications for the match at St Mary’s, which comes amid a busy run of Premier League fixtures as his facet search to protect their place on the prime of the desk.
Alisson Becker has lately made his comeback from two months out injured, beginning in opposition to Girona and Fulham over the previous week, however he’s set to sit down out the cup tie in opposition to the managerless Saints.
Slot confirms Kelleher begin v Southampton
Talking in his pre-match press convention this morning, Slot was requested if Liverpool followers may anticipate Caoimhin Kelleher to come back again into the beginning line-up tomorrow night time and easily replied (through Liverpool FC on YouTube): “Sure, we will.”
The 46-year-old added: “Sadly for us [because of Alisson’s injury] however good for him, he’s already had numerous minutes. When you make a listing of gamers and the quantity of minutes [they’ve had], there shall be gamers with far much less taking part in time than him, so he can look again on the primary half of the season for himself as a constructive.
“We’re actually lucky to have such an amazing second goalkeeper that if we want him, he’s in a position to do in addition to he’s completed.”
Slot has been up-front about his goalkeeping pecking order
It at all times appeared possible that, as soon as Alisson returned final week, Kelleher can be in line to step in for home cup video games, one thing he’s completed often over the previous few years.
The Irishman loved a chronic run of begins within the absence of our number one all through the autumn and carried out fantastically, with some pundits even arguing that the 26-year-old should maintain his place within the workforce as soon as the Brazilian had recovered from damage.
Slot has been fairly up-front about his goalkeeping hierarchy, although, and the Cork native is as soon as once more left reliant on cup fixtures and/or one other Alisson physique blow for first-team minutes at Liverpool.
Kelleher’s nationwide workforce boss Heimir Hallgrimsson has overtly urged the Reds netminder to think about discovering a brand new membership if he can’t get common game-time at Anfield, and with Giorgi Mamardashvili arriving subsequent summer season, competitors for a beginning berth will solely intensify.
It’s doable that we mightn’t see an excessive amount of extra of the 26-year-old in an LFC shirt, so let’s be pleased about what he’s completed for us already and respect him whereas he’s nonetheless on Merseyside. One factor is for positive – we gained’t be weakened by him coming in to begin in opposition to Southampton tomorrow night time!
