Liverpool hit with new injury blow in Tottenham game as Arne Slot makes peculiar substitution

Liverpool caput manager Arne Slot has mislaid yet different defender to injury, arsenic Jarell Quansah was taken disconnected successful the archetypal fractional of their EFL Cup semi-final archetypal limb with Tottenham Hotspur.

The 21-year-old was brought into the starting lineup for conscionable his sixth commencement of the play successful North London, benefitting from inevitable rotation alongside Conor Bradley and Kostas Tsimikas.

Quansah had played the afloat 90 successful each of Liverpool's archetypal 3 EFL Cup wins implicit West Ham United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Southampton this season, but helium lone got to the 30-minute people successful Wednesday's game.

The centre-back sat down connected the turf by the byline with an unspecified issue, though it appeared to person been a occupation relating to either a rib oregon his abdomen based connected the archetypal attraction being fixed by the medics.

Slot took nary chances implicit the fittingness of Quansah, but alternatively of sending connected Ibrahima Konate arsenic a like-for-like replacement, the Dutchman decided to present Wataru Endo into the fray.

Konate has lone conscionable travel backmost from the genu wounded helium picked up astatine the extremity of November, portion Endo has played centre-back before, contempt chiefly being utilized arsenic a antiaircraft midfielder since arriving astatine Anfield.

Quansah's occupation came aft Tottenham midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur was stretchered disconnected with a worrying caput injury earlier successful the archetypal half, wherever play was stopped for 10 minutes portion the South American received treatment.

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