Liverpool suffer Alisson Becker injury blow in defeat to Galatasaray

Arne Slot says Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker will miss Saturday’s Premier League match at Chelsea after going off injured in the Champions League loss away to Galatasaray.

The Reds put in a disjointed display in Istanbul as their first Champions League trip of the campaign went the same way as Saturday’s 2-1 loss to Crystal Palace.

Victor Osimhen’s first-half penalty proved the difference in Tuesday’s 1-0 league phase victory for Galatasaray, who were denied a second shortly after half-time by a smart Alisson save.

But the Brazil goalkeeper was unable to continue after denying Osimhen a second, leading to Giorgi Mamardashvili’s 56th-minute introduction.

“When he sprinted back, he felt something,” Liverpool boss Slot said of the Brazil international. “We have to wait.

“I cannot tell you (what happened) because I am not a physician but normally when a player sprints back, feels something and goes to the floor and doesn’t come back on to the pitch – which by the way they did 112 times being injured and coming back on the pitch without any pain!

“But our players don’t do this, so if my player is on the floor I nine out of 10 times fear the worst and with the worst I mean that he cannot continue and that is what happened with Alisson.

“Normally he will not be able to play Saturday, that is 99.9 per cent.”

Alisson was seen walking gingerly out of Rams Park, where striker Hugo Ekitike also limped off hurt in the second half.

“I wasn’t really thinking that we had an injury, but Hugo felt something,” Slot said. “After the game, that’s always the difficult thing with these moments, then players feel like ‘oh, it’s not too bad’.

“But when you just walk around is something different to when you make a sprint and you have to