The Reds’ Premier League season resumes with a 4.30pm BST kick-off on Sunday and the head coach is as yet unsure who will be available to face the Blues at Anfield.

Speaking during his pre-match press conference on Friday morning, Slot confirmed Alisson Becker will be sidelined for several weeks due to the injury he sustained in the 1-0 win at Crystal Palace a fortnight ago.

And he also revealed that there are decisions to be made on a number of other players following the international break.

Slot said: “Alisson is for sure not with us in the upcoming weeks, that’s clear. So, that’s a blow for him and for us because I think he did really well this season and did so well for this club for so many years.

“Now the good thing is, and I said this many times, that Caoimhin [Kelleher] did well for us in previous years and this season also, so we have a good replacement. But you always want all of your players available.

“Now we’ve got quite some issues from players coming back from the national teams, and we can only judge that perfectly today because today is the first time that they are all in and the first time that they are all training together again. So, let’s see after the session where everybody is.

“Macca [Alexis Mac Allister] missed one game [for Argentina], he played the second one. Kostas [Tsimikas] missed out in the first game against England so I can name them all but we’ve got a few issues going on and let’s wait and see where we are after today. [Wataru] Endo as well was also sick.”