Van Dijk Injury & Szobo Reports To International Duty Despite Knee Worry | Redmen Bitesize

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Hello everybody, the date today is Tuesday, the 10th of November, and this is Redmen Bites Eyes with me, Luke, bringing you all the Liverpool latest news, and as always, there's quite a bit to get through. But first of all, I feel like we need to catch up. I feel like I haven't recorded Bites Eyes. It's gotta be in at least two weeks, something like that.

I've been a very, very busy Redman, Redman, or however you wanna put it. I was off in Fenerbahce during the week. There's a video out on the channel. Obviously, Liverpool didn't quite get the result there, but it's still the nice time. It's always nice to go on them Europeanaways and get to do a little bit of traveling. So I did enjoy myself. And then I was over at Selhurst Park at the weekend for what should have been a 3-0 win, but ended up being a 3-1 win. But yeah, brilliant, brilliant performance from the Reds. Both games, I was really impressed with Trey Nioni, he actually obviously comes on against Palace, starts against Fenerbahce at 40 He was excellent, absolutely excellent.

You look at N'Golo Kante and you're watching him against Fenerbahce, you're thinking, well, N'Golo Kante's still got it. But I tell you what, Trey Nioni, he was doing a little bit of that N'Golo Kante role for us, just recovering the ball, picking it back up, recycling it, just absolutely brilliant. And then even when he come on against Crystal Palace, in them final moments at 40, he was absolutely exceptional. And Alexander Dudychak is still keeping himself amongst the goals, had one against Fenerbahce, had one against Crystal Palace at the weekend. So yeah, he's still ticking on through there. Like I said, a bit disappointed we didn't get the results against Fenerbahce, but yeah, it just happens in Turkey, doesn't it? Our record is absolutely awful. Anyway, the catch up all done. Let's get into the news. And first of all, it is the start of the international break. So we will start with a little look at that. First of all, you may have seen Dominik Szoboszlai against Crystal Palace.

He'd come back on in the second half wearing a knee brace. So I think everyone was questioning a little bit whether he'll be going on international duty with Hungary. And you'd like to hope not, to be totally honest. But according to This Is Anfield, Dominik Szoboszlai has reported for international duty, despite the knee injury he sustained against Crystal Palace with Hungary to do everything possible to make him available. Liverpool's number 8 was due to undergo tests on his right knee on Monday. After in Iraloa's words, he extended it late in the first half at Salis Park. Extended it being his knee. He played on and completed 24 minutes of the second half of strapping before Trey Naomi replaced him, putting his international break in doubt. On Monday evening, however, he was pictured arriving at Hungary's training base ahead of their nation league games against Georgia and Northern Ireland. So yeah, it looks like Dominik Szoboszlai will be taking part for Hungary. Slightly frustrating, you know, when you're seeing him run round with that strapping sort of... It looked like a knee brace from where I was stood on the ground, but maybe it is strapping. But when you see him run round with that on, you're thinking, oh, mate, there's no way you're going on this national duty. Have a break, give yourself a rest, give yourself some time off. But obviously he is the skipper and he looks like he's going. So slightly disappointing news for Liverpool is how I would put that. Hopefully it goes well for him. Hopefully he doesn't get any worse and hopefully he isn't overplayed. As we know, we have been done with injuries quite a lot recently. One man who will be staying around is Virgil van Dijk. As Liverpool puts out this morning, Liverpool's captain Virgil van Dijk will not feature in his country's matches against Greece and Germany due to a fitness issue. The statement released by the Dutch national team on Monday said that he did not return fit from the Reds' Premier League victory against Crystal Palace on Sunday. So you know, swings and roundabouts isn't it? Dominik Szoboszlai, he's going off to Hungary. Hopefully he's all good. Hopefully that knee injury doesn't get any worse and hopefully he comes back maybe in a little bit better form because he hasn't been great. However, we do get to keep the skipper around and give him a much needed rest. He's been playing a lot of football. He's going to be pretty integral to how successful our season is and he will be staying around the training ground this international break.