Fitness Update: Barcola, Muñoz, Szoboszlai

Víctor Muñoz was unavailable against Villarreal having picked up a knock at Brentford, and it looks likely that Sunday’s match against Brighton will come too soon for the Spaniard. Dominik Szoboszlai, who seemed to re-irritate his existing issue against Brentford, will also miss Sunday’s game.

Bradley Barcola should be available for the Reds, however, though the French winger did miss Thursday’s training.

Head coach Andoni Iraola laid out the full health update in Friday’s pre-match press conference:

“Bradley has trained today normally. He’s fine with no problem.

“It was just a matter of sometimes you have to deal with the loads and we consider sometimes they have to stay inside. But he’s fine.

“Víctor, he has the knock he received against Brentford [in the] first half. He could finish the game very well.

“But he’s dealing with some pain since then and it was too early the other day against Villarreal.

“I don’t know if he’s going to arrive. I think it’s going to be difficult but I really don’t know.

“Dom is going to be out this weekend. I don’t think he’s far but he hasn’t trained with the group still.

“And also considering the other day that we started him and he had to go out, we will probably take one or two days more than we would last week.

“He’s in a good place. Dom is already training outside alone and is going to train with the group, but he’s not ready for this one.”

Iraola’s comments raise no major alarms, but mean Liverpool are thin in midfield and lack their best dead ball technician once again.

Iraola did not mention long-term injured players or recent returnees, so no change is anticipated in that group.