Liverpool have just been been told the last thing they want to hear amid triple injury concern

Ronald Koeman

The March international break has certainly not been kind to Liverpool with the Premier League title race run-in ahead

Injuries to Alisson Becker, Ryan Gravenberch and a scare for Ibrahima Konate were far from ideal

now two more Dutch Reds would appear to be at big risk with their national manager taking a no holds barred approach to their second match of the week.

Liverpool have nine more Premier League matches, requiring 16 points to accumulate a total uncatchable by Arsenal's standards

But before then he must pray for a clean bill of health from the 20 players currently away representing their countries.

To that end results are yet to be published on the issue that saw Gravenberch return from the Netherlands before being able to play

Alisson gave a positive update despite suffering a concussion and pulled out of the Brazil squad and France said Konate was substituted with an injury

Slot will be hoping his squad is spared of any more issues with a huge Merseyside derby against Everton at Anfield coming next

The Reds went into the break on the back of successive defeats

Not helping this Liverpool desire is the fact that internationals this week are as competitive as they can get.

Those are at the quarter-final stage, when two-legged knockout ties are played, with the finals to come this summer

The end winner of the competition earns automatic 2026 World Cup qualification.

Whilst Gravenberch was unable to compete, his fellow Reds Virgil van Dijk and Cody Gakpo stayed behind with their country to engage in a battle with European champions Spain.

for any club hoping their star players could earn a rest, at his pre-match press conference Dutch manager Ronald Koeman, speaking via De Telegraaf, could only warn:

Koeman

“We are playing two games against Spain and want to go full throttle with - in my opinion - the best team."

That should mean another full 90 minutes for Van Dijk and Gakpo in the space of three days

Spain's ruthless attack means the former is in for a busy task and ultimately the same for the latter

as Koeman pointed out that he plans to get the most out of the Reds No.18 as they did not in Thursday's first leg.

Koeman

There were so many moments that we could have hurt them a lot more - especially in the first half. Especially on Cody Gakpo's side, where it was just open. And then we stayed on the right. So we can do even better,"