Overview
- Alisson Becker has trained fully and is expected to start on Saturday after seven weeks out with a hamstring injury, Arne Slot said.
- Conor Bradley will miss roughly three weeks and Florian Wirtz is out for the next few games with muscle problems sustained on international duty.
- With Jeremie Frimpong also sidelined, Liverpool lack a specialist right-back and Slot may use players out of position, citing Dominik Szoboszlai, Curtis Jones and Joe Gomez as options with Gomez’s workload monitored.
- Liverpool enter the match eighth after five defeats in their last six Premier League games, hosting a Nottingham Forest side improved under Sean Dyche but still winless away this season.
- Asked about reinforcements, Slot said January recruitment is not a current priority, while separate reports indicate Liverpool inserted a future buyback clause in Jarell Quansah’s sale to Bayer Leverkusen.