Newcastle Upon Tyne, Aug 26
Liverpool boss Arne Slot is hopeful Alexis Mac Allister will be available for the club's upcoming outing, when Arsenal visit Anfield on Sunday. The midfielder missed Liverpool's dramatic 3-2 victory at Newcastle United, having withdrawn from a training session at the weekend due to a fitness concern.
However, Slot doesn’t believe the issue to be serious and is optimistic of being able to call upon Mac Allister’s services for the clash with the Gunners.
"We are hoping (he will be available), yes. He had to leave the training pitch two days ago, and that would not even be the biggest problem if he would have had a proper pre-season, but he missed out for so many weeks. There is a reason why you go inside; because you probably feel something, and that is the difficult balance to find with players that were out for so long in pre-season. There you bring the base for the whole season, and you can see these intensity levels, like we faced last week and this topped it up 10 times, I think," Slot said in a post-match press conference at St. James’ Park.