Ryan Gravenberch injury: Arne Slot delivers update as Liverpool suffer new scare ahead of Champions League tie

In partnership with

Evening Standard

·19 de outubro de 2025

Ryan Gravenberch injury: Arne Slot delivers update as Liverpool suffer new scare ahead of Champions League tie

Reds midfielder did not finish the game at Anfield and is now a doubt for the Champions League tie in Germany

Arne Slot has said Ryan Gravenberch will be assessed after twisting his ankle during Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat to Manchester United.

Vídeos OneFootball

Gravenberch twisted his ankle in a challenge midway through the second-half, and while he tried to continue playing, the Dutch midfielder was substituted in the 62nd minute.

Gravenberch was deemed fit to start against Man United, having struggled with a hamstring issue over the international break, but is now a doubt ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League tie with Eintracht Frankfurt.

“I took him off because he twisted his ankle. Is he an injury concern? That’s what we have to wait and see tomorrow, but we have to play in two days again,” Slot said in his post-match press conference.

Fellow midfielder Alexis Mac Allister also underwent lengthy treatment after being caught in the head by Virgil Van Dijk’s elbow moments before United took a contentious early lead through Bryan Mbeumo’s 2nd minute strike.

Slot said his side’s honesty, with the referee opting not to stop play after Mac Allister went down injured, had arguably cost them the opening goal, but he refused to use it as an excuse for Liverpool’s performance.

“I think the main thing we should do now, I should do now is not complain, blame or do these kind of things,” Slot, who has now lost four successive games in all competitions as Liverpool boss, continued.

“So the only thing, I was (thinking) at that moment of time, I think we could have done much better after Maca was on the floor, we should have done better. But the health care of a player is something that is important, and if a player needs to have four stitches, you would hope that everybody understands that he needs immediate treatment.

“But it didn't happen, but again we could have done better so that's not the reason why we lost this game today.

Patched up: Alexis Mac Allister

Getty Images

“The reason is because we missed far too many chances to win a game of football. Again, I have said it here I think many times and I am hoping that I am not just saying it to you, but everybody understands this a bit better.

“We are not a team which I see a lot in football that go to the floor pretending if it is a head injury so they kill the counter-attack. That's not who we are.

“We never go to the floor, we always are a fair team so if a player of us is then on the floor you would hope that everybody understands oh it's Liverpool, they don't do these kind of things so let's blow a whistle.

“But again that's not an excuse for us conceding the goal and that's not an excuse for us losing this game of football.”