Liverpool have been handed a fresh concern over Ibrahima Konate’s injury as the defender is ruled out of France’s upcoming World Cup qualifier.

Konate was forced off after less than an hour in Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat to Chelsea last Saturday due to a thigh injury.

‘I don’t know if it is a big injury, but what I do know is he limped a little bit and when I asked him he said he felt his quad a little bit,’ Arne Slot said after Liverpool’s loss at Stamford Bridge.

‘Then, for me, all alarm bells go off because in another sprint you never know if that is going to go good.

‘It might be OK that he went off early enough but it was clear I had to take him off because he was limping.’

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