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

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.

“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.

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.

“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.”

Click here to read article