There was always a feeling that this weekend could deliver mixed emotions for both sides, and the latest news from the Forest camp has only reinforced that ahead of our visit to Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n
According to Liverpoolfc.com, Forest boss Sean Dyche turned up to his press conference with a written list of injured players, confirming that just one player might return for the clash.
\nHe explained that Callum Hudson-Odoi \u2013 who scored the winner in this fixture last season \u2013 \u201chas made good progress\u201d and is \u201cdefinitely being considered for the squad\u201d.<\/p>\n
Dyche added: \u201cHe\u2019s close\u2026 at least we can think about having him back involved, which is a positive.\u201d<\/p>\n
The update comes at a time when Forest are dealing with injuries across several areas of their squad.<\/p>\n
Liverpool\u2019s own concerns heading into the Forest trip<\/p>\n
Although Forest\u2019s problems are significant, we also have fresh issues to manage. Arne Slot recently confirmed that Conor Bradley and Florian Wirtz \u201ccan\u2019t play\u201d against Forest, calling the situation \u201cfar from ideal\u201d.<\/p>\n
Slot noted that \u201cmaybe one or two players will have to play out of position\u201d, hinting at more rotation. Both players\u2019 muscle problems follow a busy run of fixtures for club and country.<\/p>\n
Forest\u2019s injury list keeps growing as Liverpool seek momentum<\/p>\n
Dyche said no other players are close to returning.
\nChris Wood is awaiting another scan, Douglas Luiz needs more time, Angus Gunn is still unavailable, and Ola Aina, Dilane Bakwa, Oleksandr Zinchenko and young keeper Aaron Bott are all \u201cprogressing but not with the team yet\u201d.<\/p>\n
This lengthy list will heavily influence Forest\u2019s approach, though our own situation also matters.<\/p>\n
One positive for us is that Alisson \u201ctrained last week and this week\u201d, raising hopes that our world-class goalkeeper could return if he gets through the final session. His absence coincided with a difficult run in which we won only three of eight matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There was always a feeling that this weekend could deliver mixed emotions for both sides, and the latest news from the Forest camp has only reinforced that ahead of our visit to Nottinghamshire. According to Liverpoolfc.com, Forest boss Sean Dyche turned up to his press conference with a written list of injured players, confirming that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":55018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/EOTK-FeaturedHero-Image-Templates-29.jpg.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55019,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55017\/revisions\/55019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}