Liverpool Players Expected to Be Fit for Premier League Match Against Bournemouth

Premier League leaders Liverpool will visit Vitality Stadium for a Saturday showdown with high-flying Bournemouth. The Reds are currently six points ahead of second-placed Arsenal and have a game in hand at Everton.

Arne Slot’s side, after already securing a spot in the Champions League last 16, missed the chance to finish the group stage with a perfect record following a 3-2 loss to PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday. Slot opted to rest several key players for the match, which had no bearing on their qualification.

Liverpool secured top spot in the league after Barcelona was held to a 2-2 draw by Atalanta.

Bournemouth, on the other hand, come into the match in excellent form, having delivered dominant performances against Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest, winning 4-1 and 5-0 on consecutive weekends. The Cherries are unbeaten in their last 11 league games, sitting seventh, just one point behind the Champions League spots.

Liverpool’s Joe Gomez, Diogo Jota, and Darwin Nunez were expected to train on Friday after recovering from recent injuries and illness, though they may not be immediately available. Curtis Jones will miss the match due to injury.

Ahead of the game, Slot spoke to the media: “It’s a big one and this is probably going to sound strange [but] I knew this already when we played the second half against them in our home game.

“We were 3-0 up at half-time and I was expecting a second half where we could just control the game, have the ball a bit and maybe score the fourth one – but they just kept on going at us for 45 minutes and that showed me the character of the team.

“Since then they have been outstanding. They were before that game also. Because we were 3-0 up at half-time, we didn’t really match the first half, in my opinion, maybe we deserved to be up but not with three goals.

“And afterwards they have beaten so many strong teams and there is a simple reason for that: a lot of quality. Created by Richard [Hughes], of course, our current sporting director who worked there for a few years.

“And he hired a fantastic manager as well. Why is he a fantastic manager? He has a great game plan and his players work incredibly hard. And then in a different way than Arsenal, they are also a threat on set-pieces.

“Where Arsenal nine out of 10 times does the same, they always come up with worked ones that have been very useful for them as well.

“So, in every department a very good and strong team and they deserve to be where they are – maybe they even deserve a bit higher than the position they are at the moment.”

Goalkeepers
Alisson Becker, Caoimhin Kelleher, Vítězslav Jaroš

Defenders
Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, Joe Gomez*, Conor Bradley, Jarell Quansah, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andy Robertson, Kostas Tsimikas

Midfielders
Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister, Wataru Endo, Harvey Elliott, James McConnell, Trey Nyoni, Tyler Morton, Dominik Szoboszlai

Forwards
Mohamed Salah, Luis Diaz, Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez*, Federico Chiesa, Jayden Danns, Diogo Jota*

*Doubt