Arne Slot has admitted Federico Chiesa’s chances of playing for Liverpool have been impacted by the Reds’ hectic schedule this season.

With just 10 games remaining in the campaign, including Sunday’s Carabao Cup final at Wembley, chances are running out for Chiesa to make an impact this season.

The Italian has struggled to get any game time since making the move from Juventus last summer, with just 10 appearances to his name so far.

Chiesa has been left on the bench for Liverpool’s last seven games, with his last appearance coming in the infamous 1-0 defeat to Plymouth in the FA Cup.

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With just Sunday’s final and nine Premier League games to go now, it seems increasingly unlikely that Chiesa will get many more opportunities, if any, for the remainder of the season, with Slot admitting the packed schedule has not helped in bedding him in.

“That’s of course more difficult, because these players hardly train with the starters if you look at our schedule in the last three or four months,” Slot said in his press conference on Friday.

“So if we play for example on Saturday and then we play on Tuesday again, then on Sunday the ones that played on Saturday only do a recovery session, so they’re not on the pitch.

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Federico Chiesa has made just 10 appearances since joining Liverpool last summer

He is firmly sixth-choice among the forwards, and considering Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez aren’t in great form, that is a worrying sign.

Considering how little Liverpool had to pay for him in the summer, it seemed like a no-brainer to sign Chiesa