Liverpool moved to the highest of the Premier League standings with a win towards Brighton on Saturday.
Targets from Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah turned across the match for the Reds who had been shedding 1-0 towards the Seagulls.
The Reds, impressed by supervisor Arne Slot’s halftime group discuss, got here again to win at Anfield and since each Arsenal and Manchester Metropolis misplaced their matches, the win gave the Merseyside membership an important benefit within the Premier League title race.
The one concern for the Liverpool devoted from the match towards Brighton was the harm suffered by centre-back Ibrahima Konate.
The French defender was taken off at halftime and appeared visibly in ache. Joe Gomez was introduced on to exchange the injured defender.
Virgil van Dijk had identified after the match that the harm won’t be too severe and that’s additionally what the scan has confirmed.
Konate posted a message on his Instagram account, making the followers conscious of the extent of his harm.
He wrote:
“Thanks for all of the messages of help. My harm isn’t severe fortunately. I had a scan immediately and it confirmed there is no such thing as a break. I’ll be prepared for the subsequent recreation.”
Virgil van Dijk has introduced one of the best out of Ibrahima Konate
This comes as enormous enhance for Liverpool who depend on Konate’s presence on the coronary heart of their protection alongside Van Dijk.
Each of the Liverpool centre-backs have been in high quality kind this season and their report reveals that.
They’ve solely conceded six Premier League targets in ten matches this season, displaying that they’re one of the best defensive facet within the league by a ways.
Regardless of the supply of defenders like Gomez and Jarrel Quansah as again up, Liverpool know that Konate is necessary to their probabilities of successful silverware and his constant degree of performances haven’t gone unnoticed.
