Liverpool's issues have prolonged to preparations for his or her Champions League match at Eintracht Frankfurt after their flight to Germany was delayed by nearly 4 hours by technical difficulties with the airplane.
Arne Slot and his squad have been scheduled to depart Liverpool John Lennon airport at 4pm on Tuesday having accomplished a pre-match coaching session on the membership's base. Nevertheless, their flight didn't take off till 7.51pm after a number of delays and Liverpool's gamers, who're searching for to keep away from a fifth consecutive defeat on Wednesday, have been left ready in a personal terminal on the airport all through that point. The airplane did at the very least depart in time to reach earlier than Frankfurt airport closed at 11pm German time (10pm BST).
Liverpool's 21-man travelling squad didn't embody Ryan Gravenberch due to the ankle damage he sustained within the defeat by Manchester United on Sunday.
The lateness of their departure pressured Liverpool needed to cancel their pre-match press convention that includes Slot and Dominik Szoboszlai.
A membership assertion launched 40 minutes earlier than the press convention was scheduled to start out confirmed: “Our pre-match press convention for the conflict with Eintracht Frankfurt has been cancelled. A delay within the squad's scheduled flight out to Frankfurt, on account of technical points with the plane, means the briefing will no longer have the ability to happen.”
Technically they have been in breach of Uefa rules by not internet hosting a press convention however the membership are unlikely to be fined as a result of the delay was past their management. Arsenal discovered themselves in an analogous state of affairs in October 2023 when their flight to Lens was delayed by practically 5 hours on account of adversarial climate circumstances. Arsenal weren't fined on that event.
Uefa guidelines state: “The golf equipment should prepare for his or her groups to reach on-site by the night earlier than the match involved on the newest, and in time to fulfil their media obligations the day earlier than the match.”
The disruption to Liverpool's preparations is one other headache for Slot as he goals to halt a harmful run of 4 consecutive defeats in all competitions. A fifth loss in a row towards Eintracht on Wednesday could be Liverpool's worst run since they endured 5 defeats in succession in Division One in September 1953.
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However the Liverpool head coach insisted: “No, it is not going to impression the buildup to tomorrow's recreation. We have now skilled over right here on the AXA; usually we'd have gone to Frankfurt just a few hours earlier, now we're just a few hours later. That may by no means be an excuse for the sport tomorrow.”
