Florian Wirtz scratches his head
Florian Wirtz missed training on Tuesday
Florian Wirtz missed training with on Tuesday, in a major blow to struggling side. The German international during November's international break, and missed on Saturday.
However, was not the only Liverpool star absent from training this week. As per reports, Jeremie Frimpong was also missing from Tuesday's session at the AXA Training Centre, as was - as both continue to recover from their own respective injuries.
It will come as disheartening news to Liverpool fans, who have recently seen their side suffer a sluggish run of form in the . At the time of writing, languish at 12th in the league standings, losing six of their last seven outings.
And while Slot will hope to find his footing in Europe to make up for a turbulent term on English soil, he looks to be without three key players in Wirtz, Frimpong and Bradley for Wednesday evening's clash with .
In the thus far, Liverpool have enjoyed wins over , and , as well as enduring a loss to at the end of September. And as a result, they sit eighth in the competition's league table.
However, they could climb the standings on Wednesday with a win over the table-toppers on home soil, depending on results elsewhere. It comes as Slot came under fire for Liverpool's 3-0 loss to at Anfield at the weekend.
The Reds struggled to get going in front of the Kop, heading 1-0 down midway through the first half when Murillo found the back of the net. Igor Jesus looked to have doubled the visitors' lead moments later, only to see his goal ruled out for a handball in the build-up.
Jeremie Frimpong looks on
Jeremie Frimpong is currently side-lined
Nicolo Savona bagged a second for Forest moments after the restart, before put the game well and truly out of reach with around 10 minutes left to play. Speaking after the match, Slot explained how Liverpool failing to take their chances in the first-half proved particularly costly.
He said: "How bad is difficult to measure, but it was very bad, of course. Playing at home, losing 3-0, no matter which team you face, is of course a very, very, very bad result. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the game.
"In my opinion, a good start from us. Haven't seen us creating so much in the first half-hour of a game maybe throughout the whole season - I'm not sure because I don't remember every single game now, but we were able to create a lot.
"And the first time they arrived in our box, they scored a goal and it's a very difficult cocktail to drink, or to have. If you miss out on your own chances, then almost every time you concede one the ball goes in."
Liverpool suffered a 3-0 loss to Nottingham Forest
When asked if he believes he will be able to turn the tide in the north west of England, he added: "It's my responsibility. Win or lose, it's my responsibility. But what I also I see is that the team, and our fans as well, stay until the end, support until the end, and the players keep on trying until the end.
"And what I also see today, and that wasn't at - but at City we were not the only team that struggled in the first-half - but in every other game we've played, we've been the dominant team and we were able to create chances. Like I said, lately it's almost constantly that we miss our chances and the ones go in that we concede, but that will never continue throughout the whole season.
"But we need to have that moment of energy of scoring a goal. If you are playing well and you go 1-0 up then the other team feels like, 'We've played here half and hour now and we're 1-0 down, and we've hardly seen the ball.' But the opposite thing happened, they got a big, big, big energy boost from scoring 1-0.
"I see a lot of things where in a 'normal' situation the result would have been different, but we are now in a difficult situation and then you need to do even more to get your results in than when things are going in your favour."
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