Liverpool have been hit with a hammer blow forward of their journey to face Rangers as Joel Matip and Trent Alexander-Arnold have been dominated out of the Champions League showdown.
The Reds' win over Gers at Anfield final week was a welcome respite from a home marketing campaign that has not been form to Jurgen Klopp and his workforce. Defeat to Arsenal over the weekend leaves them stranded in tenth with simply two wins from their opening eight matches to all however dissolve their title hopes even at this early stage.
They nonetheless have designs on successful Group A although on the midway level. Liverpool at the moment occupy second behind Napoli, who've a 100 per cent report, and can hope to make some floor on them on Wednesday evening after they journey to Ibrox whereas Ajax go to Naples in search of some revenge.
Gio van Bronckhorst might be hoping to dent these ambitions as his personal workforce look to salvage their possibilities of ending third and dropping into the Europa League. They face a hurting Liverpool workforce and it emerged on Monday evening that key winger Luis Diaz will miss the journey to Ibrox.
Now varied experiences down south say Alexander-Arnold, whose gorgeous free-kick opened the scoring within the first sport, will miss the conflict alongside Matip, usually the first-choice companion to Virgil van Dijk. Andy Robertson can also be anticipated to overlook out and it means Klopp must use the breadth of his squad as they search for one other large Champions League outcome.
Ibrahima Konate seems to come back in for Matip whereas Joe Gomez has been the deputy when Alexander-Arnold has been out this season - though former Aberdeen right-back Calvin Ramsay might be pushing for some minutes with the standard beginning right-back now out for 2 weeks.
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