Dominik Szoboszlai will miss Liverpool’s Premier League clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers through suspension after picking up his fifth yellow card of the season against Tottenham Hotspur.
Szoboszlai will serve a one-match ban when Arne Slot’s side host Wolves on December 27 (3pm GMT).
Liverpool won 2-1 in North London, with second-half goals from Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike following Xavi Simons’ first-half red card, before a late Richarlison strike set up a tense finish.
The win extended Liverpool’s unbeaten run to six games in all competitions and moved them up to fifth in the table.
“Of course we are happy with that. But when we started the season, it wasn’t as if I was thrilled and completely happy when we were top four,” Arne Slot said after the game.
“We’re always aiming for the best possible and, after a very good start we had, we were disappointed with the run of results we had afterwards. But I think you’ve said it, we are now maybe on equal points for top four, I don’t exactly know.
“But don’t forget, in the Champions League we’ve done quite well with a very difficult draw. I see a lot of teams that hardly have a point but we haven’t faced them.
“So, I think it’s never been as bad as people said, but it’s also true that we are definitely not perfect yet. But we knew this when we made so many changes in the summer that it would take time.
“Maybe because we won the first five or six games, everybody thought this would just go so easily.
“But as a club, ownership, Richard [Hughes], Michael [Edwards], all the other people, knew that change could, could, could also go with different results – and that has shown to be true.”
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