Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has lost yet another defender to injury, as Jarell Quansah was taken off in the first half of their EFL Cup semi-final first leg with Tottenham Hotspur.
The 21-year- vintage turned into delivered into the beginning lineup for simply his 6th begin of the season in North London, benefitting from inevitable rotation along Conor Bradley and Kostas Tsimikas.
Quansah had performed the overall ninety in every of Liverpool’s first 3 EFL Cup wins over West Ham United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Southampton this season, however he most effective were given to the 30-minute mark in Wednesday’s game.
The centre- lower back sat down at the turf with the aid of using the byline with an unspecified issue, even though it regarded to had been a trouble regarding both a rib or his stomach primarily based totally at the preliminary remedy being given with the aid of using the medics.
Slot took no possibilities over the health of Quansah, however in place of sending on Ibrahima Konate as a like-for-like replacement, the Dutchman determined to introduce Wataru Endo into the fray.
Konate has most effective simply come lower back from the knee damage he picked up on the give up of November, even as Endo has performed centre- lower back before, notwithstanding especially getting used as a protective midfielder seeing that arriving at Anfield.Quansah’s trouble got here after Tottenham midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur turned into stretchered off with a stressful head damage in advance withinside the first half, in which play turned into stopped for 10 mins even as the South American obtained treatmen