Arne Slot confirmed Conate Ibrahima had a quadriceps injury before being replaced in a last-minute defeat at Chelsea in Liverpool. As if the defeat wasn’t enough for the Reds, the French defender was carried away 10 minutes away in the second half at Stamford Bridge. There, the Reds were defeated 2-1 after a halt-time winner from Chelsea’s substitute Willian Estebao.
Conate was visibly annoyed as he headed down the tunnel. “I don’t know if it’s a major injury or not, but I know he limped,” the Liverpool head coach said. “And I asked him, and he said: “I feel a bit of my quad.”
“But for me, all the alarm bells go off, because in another sprint, I’m not sure if it will work, so I’ve already had it in mind a bit later, because I already had it in mind a bit later.
“So it might be okay, he left early enough, but it was clear he had to take off him because he was limping.”
Looking back on the loss, Slot, Liverpool’s third consecutive loss, has already lost another centre-back Giovan Nileoni to a season-ending injury.
“But what didn’t resemble a palace match was in the first half, and I think we’re not the best football and still very good. We had three big opportunities. They only had one.
“There were so many opportunities in the first half that it was completely different from the palace match. I liked the performance in the second half, like the Palace.
“When we did, there was a period of games that we thought we would win. We got very close to four vs three lucrative opportunities and moments. We finished from the end in the last 10 minutes. Both teams won.
