Liverpool suffered a potential blow during their 1-0 victory over Real Betis as Curtis Jones was forced off through injury.

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Arne Slot cut an animated figure during his first outing as Liverpool bossCredit: Getty

Dominik Szoboszlai scored the winner in Arne Slot's first outing but the new Reds boss admitted to concerns over Jones.

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He said: "I think it's too early to tell [how bad it is].

Hopefully he can recover from [it] really fast, but we have to wait and see.

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"We hope he recovers really fast so we can see him in the next few games."

Slot added: "It's always a pity if he has to go out after 25 minutes, half an hour.

And before that you could see that he was not completely free.

"It was unfortunate because he had two really good weeks during the training sessions so I looked forward to seeing him in the game, but unfortunately he had to go out.

"The good thing about that was that we brought someone [on] that impressed me in the 45 minutes to an hour he played afterwards.

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"That was the positive thing of Curtis going out for Trey, but of course for Curtis it's a pity that he couldn't play on."

Jones recently spoke of his delight at Slot's arrival, having mostly been a fringe player under Jurgen Klopp.

“He’s amazing," the 23-year-old said when asked about Slot.

I can ‘do me’ more.”

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Nyoni's impressive display provided a silver lining for Slot during an eye-opening friendly in the States.

The 17-year-old caught the manager's eye and impressed Liverpool fans watching on from home.
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