LIVERPOOL, England (AP) 鈥� Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker was not part of the 21-man player squad that traveled to Turkey on Monday to play Galatasaray in the .
Liverpool manager Arne Slot said the Brazil international 鈥渇elt something,鈥� without disclosing the exact nature of the injury, in the team’s final training before flying to Istanbul for Tuesday’s game.
鈥淲e don鈥檛 expect it to be a big thing,鈥� Slot said, 鈥渂ut it was too much to be available for tomorrow.鈥�
Alisson played the full match in Liverpool’s most recent outing, a in the FA Cup on Friday.
Georgia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili is likely to deputize for Alisson.
Mamardashvili already played at Galatasaray this season when he came on as a substitute to replace Alisson in the second half of Liverpool’s 1-0 loss in September.
He went on to play in the next three Champions League rounds, which were wins against Eintracht Frankfurt and Real Madrid, then a 4-1 loss at home to PSV Eindhoven.
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