With gamers coming back from worldwide responsibility forward of a busy interval, Arne Slot should begin to rotate his Liverpool workforce, however will that start in opposition to Nottingham Forest?

The primary part of Slot’s tenure went virtually completely to plan.

Now, although, comes a harder take a look at as he should navigate the Premier League, Champions League and League Cup with out dropping factors or shedding video games.

That is the run of video games through which we’ll see whether or not Liverpool can problem come Might or if the brand new head coach will want extra time to be taught the position.

Right here’s how Liverpool might line up in opposition to Forest.

Crew Information

What Slot revealed in his press convention:

• Harvey Elliott “would have had a whole lot of enjoying time” however is now injured
• Alexis Mac Allister anticipated “to be with us” for the match – this comes after experiencing adductor discomfort with Argentina
• Federico Chiesa is match and has “skilled with the workforce three or 4 instances”

Liverpool’s XI vs. Nottingham Forest

There will likely be a temptation amongst supporters to relaxation a few of Liverpool’s large names given the forthcoming journey to San Siro on Tuesday.

Nonetheless, as Slot stated in his press convention on Friday, he prefers to maintain his beginning XI collectively as usually as attainable.

For that motive, we’ve gone for an unchanged facet as considered one of our predicted groups, although worldwide niggles and minutes performed might effectively imply he’s pressured to relaxation gamers.

Listed below are a few of Slot’s attainable thought processes:

That is how Liverpool would line up:

Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Gravenberch, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister; Salah, Jota, Diaz

As talked about, Slot could also be pressured into altering a few his senior gamers who’ve had a busy worldwide break.

Mac Allister and Robertson could be the plain names to drop out, however the nature of Dominik Szoboszlai‘s tireless operating throughout matches might additionally imply he would profit from a relaxation.

After all, Slot could be clever to not substitute too many from his beginning XI, with Nottingham Forest but to lose this season in regular time:

• After two video games and a purpose for the Netherlands, Cody Gakpo replaces Diaz – who has simply returned from South America
• Curtis Jones returns from damage because the Reds take no dangers with Mac Allister
• Kostas Tsimikas is available in to permit Robertson a relaxation

Right here’s how this rotated workforce would look:

Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Van Dijk, Tsimikas; Gravenberch, Szoboszlai, Jones; Salah, Jota, Gakpo

Whereas the workforce to play Nottingham Forest might find yourself being the identical as in opposition to Man United, it’s within the video games after and the following few weeks once we will learn the way Slot plans to rotate.

The usage of Liverpool’s midfielders ought to be particularly attention-grabbing provided that Slot has seemingly dismissed Wataru Endo as his first-choice possibility on this present explicit system.