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Cody Gakpo, who sat out the win over Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday, is a doubt for Saturday’s game against Southampton, goalkeeper Alisson was absent for two months in autumn and striker Diogo Jota was another long-term absentee.

He said: “If you think injuries are only a part of luck or bad luck then we’ve been lucky but we try to believe in the fact that we try to prevent them from a certain way of working.

That we don’t have many injuries, I don’t see that as luck.



If we can continue doing this for years without many big injuries then it’s probably also quality, although you cannot go through a season in the Premier League, Champions League and all these cup competitions we play in this country without any injuries.

“Diogo Jota was out for three or four months without a start, Alisson Becker has been out for weeks, maybe even months, Trent [Alexander-Arnold] has been out, Conor Bradley.

It could be luck but I hope we do things in the right way.”

Liverpool were without Alisson Becker for most of the first half of the season (PA Wire)

But Slot was happy to concede Liverpool were very fortunate against Paris Saint-Germain when Luis Enrique’s team had 27 shots to their two and, aided by the brilliance of Alisson, the Premier League leaders won 1-0.

And, even scoring a goal on the counter-attack shows you how mentally and physically strong these players are.

Arne Slot will serve the second match of his touchline ban against Southampton (PA Wire)

“If you want to win something – if it’s the Premier League, League Cup, Champions League or FA Cup – you need to have once in a while a game where you don’t play your best football and you are lucky – which is maybe not luck if you work as hard as we do – to get away with a result.

There are almost no teams that play 38 games or in the Champions League it’s not as many games that play only good football.