Gravenberch Ruled Out With Injury | Redmen Bitesize

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Oh yeah, it is The Redmen Bitesize Podcast. It is Tuesday, the 3rd of November, and I'm here to round up the latest Liverpool news from the past 24 hours. And in 24 hours time, it will be match day. Liverpool take on Fenerbahçe, so we will have some news looking ahead to that game, also still reflecting on the Arsenal performance, because Steven Gerrard came out and had some things to say. We'll have a look at some Liverpool stats, and I'll also remind you of the times that Liverpool will be having their press conference and things like that. So let's get straight into it. And sadly, there has been news this morning about Ryan Gravenberch. He is being ruled out of the game tomorrow with a heel injury. Liverpool's statement was, a heel injury means the midfielder will not be part of the Reds travelling squad for Wednesday's meeting with Turkish side in Istanbul. He will instead remain at the AXA training centre to undergo treatment with the club's medical team. And maybe this was also a potential problem at the weekend and why we saw Trey and Yoni start. I at the time just thought that he'd backed Trey and Yoni. And to be perfectly honest, I was absolutely sound with it as well. I like to see Trey. I enjoyed his performance against Arsenal. So he didn't really have a problem when he was playing. And I think a lot of us probably reflected on that game of football and kind of said, well, Grav kind of needs to have a word with himself. If, you know, a young lad has taken his shirt there because Dom Zabozla is being out. But maybe, just maybe Grav wasn't actually able to play the game. We put him, you know, in the squad for, you know, reasons of if we really, really needed him. But maybe he wasn't able to play. And maybe he did have this injury on Sunday as well, which would make me feel a little bit better, to be perfectly honest, about, you know, the fact that not Trey started because, you know, like I mentioned, I enjoyed seeing Trey. But the fact that I kind of thought, wow, Grav, I can't believe you've actually let this happen, that, you know, the young lad has took your spot when Dom Zabozla is out and the shirt is yours there.

So, it would make me feel better if that wasn't the case. But hopefully, Ryan Gravenberch does heal quite quickly, which is, you know, in fact, I'm not even, no, let's move past the joke. It was crap.

But yeah, hopefully, he's not out for too long, but he will be out for the Champions League game tomorrow night. And staying on Fenerbahçe then, let's talk about the presser and things like that. So, Antoni Iraloa and Cody Gacpe are the two players due to speak at 3.15 today. That is UK time, by the way, quarter past three.

And Liverpool have lost their last five games against Turkish sides in Istanbul. But have happy memories here with the 2005 Champions League final, which we all remember really, really, really well. The Reds will be in their home kit tomorrow with the keeper playing in green due to Fenerbahçe's yellow and dark blue striped shirt. So yeah, Liverpool will be in red.

Hopefully, we'll hear from Andoni Iraloa and Cody Garpona. No one else please be injured. But we'll get a further update on that. I can also tell you the team, the traveling team, not the actual team. But the traveling squad is Alisson Gomez, Van Dyck, Jacque Kirkes, Beard Sobo, Isaac McAllister, Gacpeau, Costas Munoz, Mamadashvili, Woodman, Barcola, Araujo, Tre'an Yoni, Luke Chambers, McConnell, Kirmas, Rio and Jadon Dans. So yeah, be really interesting to see what happens there. I think a lot of us have maybe spoke about how this isn't the biggest game of the week. Sunday in the Premier League is the bigger game and therefore maybe we will do a little bit of rotation. However, like I've just mentioned there, Liverpool's result away in Turkey isn't great. So whether Liverpool can afford to make those changes, we'll have to wait and see. But this is a Fenerbahçe side who, their fans are really worried about, their manager resigned. They've now got Dirk Coutt, who's going to be managing them up against Liverpool, which is a niche little lovely moment for him. And honestly, I hope he loses because I need Liverpool to win. But I do think it's a cool moment for him.