Key Highlights
- Frimpong’s injury-interrupted time at Liverpool mirrors Alexander-Arnold’s stop-start beginning to life at the Bernabeu. The Netherlands international is poised to return against West Ham on Saturday.
- A man who barely missed a game for Bayer Leverkusen has had three hamstring injuries in England.
- Proof the physicality of the league can be tough to adjust to, Arne Slot has often said. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAnd for the first time in a month, Liverpool will be able to call upon a right-back who actually is a right-back; apart, anyway, from Calvin Ramsay, granted one start in the Carabao Cup, one minute in the FA Cup and neither in the Premier League. Dominik Szoboszlai, Liverpool's player of the season, has been dragged into right back from midfield far more often than Arne Slot would have liked (Liverpool FC via )This has been the season of seven right-backs for Liverpool and, of the seven, Ramsay has played least.
- It could have been eight, had they got their way at the end of the winter window, when they tried to sign Lutsharel Geertruida on loan.
- The Dutchman has something in common with Alexander-Arnold having each played right-back for Slot in a title-winning campaign; one for Feyenoord, the other for Liverpool. Of the Liverpool septet – at times, more makeshift than magnificent seven – one is a centre-back by trade, in Joe Gomez, and three are midfielders, in Wataru Endo, Curtis Jones and Dominik Szoboszlai.