Jeremie Frimpong made a notable start to life at Liverpool after joining from Bayer Leverkusen this summer, scoring in the Community Shield and then making his Premier League debut on Friday. He impressed early but was withdrawn with half an hour left to play, leaving the pitch alongside Milos Kerkez. Both were replaced by Joe Gomez and Andy Robertson.<\/p>\n
Arne Slot explained the decision to remove the full-backs and underlined the medical caution behind the change. “It wasn\u2019t out of luxury,” the Dutchman explained. “Jeremie Frimpong felt his hamstring at half-time and made a lot of sprints.<\/p>\n
“He was doing quite well, but our other full-back, Conor Bradley, is already injured with a hamstring injury, so you don\u2019t to take the risk of losing another full-back.<\/p>\n
“You could argue, why don\u2019t you play Joe Gomez there, but he only had two sessions in pre-season and could only play half an hour, so we started with Wataru Endo and our left full-back Milos Kerkez.” <\/p>\n
Slot added that Bradley is expected to return from his hamstring injury by the end of the month. Milos Kerkez made an impression in his Premier League appearance for Liverpool, flying into some crunching tackles before being booked shortly before half-time. Lining up opposite Semenyo, Slot said he wanted to make sure the Hungarian would not see red. ” is a player I think the fans like because every duel he goes all in.<\/p>\n
“But when you have a yellow card already and play Semenyo, that is a risk.<\/p>\n
“And if you have Robertson as a back-up, that was the reason for those two.” <\/p>\n
The substitutions reflected a clear priority on protecting full-back resources after the early injury to Conor Bradley and the limited pre-season minutes for Joe Gomez. Liverpool’s management opted for caution to avoid further hamstring problems while keeping the result intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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