Arne Slot could be welcoming three Liverpool players back early from international duty because of injury. Following Champions League elimination at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain and a Carabao Cup final defeat to Newcastle, the Reds have arrived at the two-week pause needing a reset.

Arsenal meanwhile, won their final game before the break against Chelsea just a few days after a drawing with PSV in the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie which saw them comfortably advance 9-3 on aggregate.

Players from both sets of teams have since jetted off to represent their respective nations with some lining up alongside each other.

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Both Jurrien Timber and Ryan Gravenberch were absent from the Netherlands' draw against Spain despite being named in Ronald Koeman's Netherlands squad.

Timber missed the Nations League quarter final through illness while .

At centre-back for France against Croatia on Thursday evening, William Saliba was partnered with Ibrahima Konate, but the latter only lasted the first 45 minutes.

After conceding an early penalty,

Just a few hours later, in Brazil's World Cup qualifier against Colombia, goalkeeper Alisson was forced off with a suspected concussion, as per national team doctor Rodrigo Lasmar, after colliding with Davinson Sanchez.

Per , Lasmar said: "Becker suffered a trauma to the head region, he was replaced by a suspected concussion.

Now we will do all the CBF protocol, it will undergo recommended imaging tests, a computed tomography, then a resonance with diffusion."

Though hardly three long-term injuries, it is certainly far from ideal for Slot to have three key players pick up potential issues. With the Reds 12 points clear of Arsenal at the top, it is unlikely to have any bearing on the Premier League title race.

"We still don't know if he's injured," national team head coach Luciano Spalletti told reporters after the game.

"Ricky feels something strange at his knee but we still don't know."