Liverpool head into the international break five points clear at the top of the Premier League and also sitting in pole position in the Champions League group stage. It could hardly have gone better for Arne Slot.
But what has made the new Liverpool head coach’s record-breaking start to life in the Anfield hotseat – Slot has won 15 of his 17 games in charge across all competitions – all the more impressive is the fact that he has been without a number of players through injury.
Much has been made of the absences title rivals Manchester City and Arsenal have had to contend with in the opening months of the campaign, but the Reds have also had major issues to deal with of their own.
The two-week break from club football will hopefully allow Slot to get some bodies back before the season resumes with a Premier League trip to rock-bottom Southampton on Sunday, November 24.
That match is followed by a run on games that sees Liverpool face Real Madrid, Man City, Newcastle United and Everton in the space of 11 days.So ahead of that mouth-watering run, what is the latest on Slot’s walking wounded?
