Conor Bradley has returned to training, but Liverpool will be without Jeremie Frimpong until next month, Arne Slot confirmed.
Frimpong was substituted on the hour mark during the Reds’ Premier League win over AFC Bournemouth last Friday due to a hamstring injury.
He will miss the upcoming matches against Newcastle United and Arsenal.
Meanwhile, Bradley is back in training after missing the FA Community Shield and the game against Bournemouth.
“Conor trained for a few minutes with us today for the first time,” head coach Slot reported when asked about squad fitness at his pre-Newcastle press conference.
“The medical team was completely right about Jeremie to tell me they had to take him off, because he is out until the end of the international break and that happened in the game.
“I already said immediately after the game that it had nothing to do with how he played, but we felt he had an issue with his hamstring. And with ‘we’ I don’t mean me, but the medical staff. And they were completely right.
“So, a good call to take him off, otherwise he would have maybe been out for longer. And we expect to have him back after the international break.”
“No, Jeremie has a very positive injury record. Conor has been out once or twice last season. These things happen in a season,” the Dutchman added.
“We only have at the moment two injuries, unfortunately it is two for the same position. But the good thing is some others can play in that position as well. Wata [Endo] played in that position for a few minutes, Dominik Szoboszlai already played in that position.
“So, there are other options we can explore. Joe Gomez is definitely one of them, but for him to play already 20 minutes, that was already quite a lot. I wouldn’t say he had a setback but he wasn’t able to train three days in a row completely with the team.
“Which is completely normal if you’re out for so long and all of a sudden the manager needs you for 20 minutes. But he is training with the team, so let’s see where he is on Monday, if he can be involved in the team or if he can even start.
“But there are other options we have as well in this position. It’s just you cannot prepare for two injuries in one position, it would be stupid for us to have three full-backs or five left-backs.
“Although we have three left-backs at the moment! So we’re unlucky that the right full-backs are injured.”
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