Bradley Barcola was absent from Liverpool team training on Thursday, but Sky Sports reporter Vinny O’Connor says there is no injury concern. He is undergoing an individual recovery session instead.
Barcola has played heavily in recent weeks, featuring in all nine Liverpool matches since his £106m transfer from Paris Saint-Germain in August and starting six of those. He came on as a late substitute in Tuesday’s win over Villarreal, with Andoni Iraola managing his workload after accumulating 690 minutes across club and country in six-and-a-half weeks.
Victor Munoz, Jeremie Frimpong and Dominik Szoboszlai were also absent from training, along with longer-term injury casualties Hugo Ekitike, Conor Bradley and Giovanni Leoni.
Liverpool do not play until Sunday against Brighton, giving Barcola and others time to recover.
How this story developed
- 22 Oct We first reported this.
- 22 Oct This Is Anfield adds that Victor Munoz also missed training; the earlier report noted only Barcola's absence.
- 23 Oct Petit now urges Barcola to raise his mental level and adapt to Liverpool, while noting his hat-trick confidence boost; he warns the winger faces fierce competition for his place under Iraola.
- 23 Oct More outlets picked it up.
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