Andoni Iraola

Jeremie Frimpong misses Liverpool's Champions League game against Villarreal with a new injury Andoni Iraola called "massive", picked up two or three minutes after coming on. A return before the international break? "We will try, but it's going to be difficult."

Dominik Szoboszlai did not worsen his injury playing through it against Brentford, Andoni Iraola said, but he misses Liverpool's Champions League game against Villarreal: "probably we have to be a little bit more patient." Ryan Gravenberch is back.

"Maybe it's not the one you are thinking": Andoni Iraola hinted at changes to Liverpool's starting XI against Villarreal in the Champions League because "some players are not fresh enough" after Brentford, which he called their most demanding game for running.

"I'm not going to deny that I feel more comfortable playing as a centre-back," Ronald Araujo said, but he will give everything at right-back for Liverpool. Andoni Iraola raised the role in their first conversation. A permanent move? "A bit early," Araujo said.

Liverpool will lose Jeremie Frimpong and Dominik Szoboszlai "for some time", Andoni Iraola said. Frimpong had ended the last game cramping, but against 10 men Iraola picked him over Ronald Araujo: "he could give us more." Szoboszlai's injury was probably not healed enough.

Liverpool arrived late from a Champions League away game two days before the Brentford win, with no proper recovery. Andoni Iraola was left "in doubt between the players that have already started two games and are very tired, or the players that are recovering from injuries."

Andoni Iraola is without his top scorers again: Cody Gakpo, Alexander Isak and Dominik Szoboszlai, hurt on international duty, miss the European game after sitting out Man City. From Liverpool's media availability: freshness and "some niggles" make an unchanged XI "difficult".