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Liverpool manager Arne Slot delivers the latest on Curtis Jones after the midfielder was forced off through injury in Saturday's 3-2 Premier League loss to Brentford.

Liverpool manager Arne Slot has delivered the latest on Curtis Jones after the midfielder was forced off through injury in Saturday's 3-2 Premier League loss to Brentford.

After breaking a Reds Champions League record in their 5-1 battering of Eintracht Frankfurt in midweek, Jones was given the nod alongside Dominik Szoboszlai in midfield at the Gtech Community Stadium.

The 24-year-old was making just his second Premier League start of the season in West London, where Ryan Gravenberch missed out with an ankle injury and Alexis Mac Allister started on the bench amid his dip in form.

However, Jones's race was run in the 70th minute of the contest, as the Englishman dropped to the turf with an apparent groin injury and had to be replaced by talented teenage prospect Rio Ngumoha.

Slot was inevitably quizzed on Jones's condition in his post-game press conference, and while the Dutchman could not say for sure how serious the issue is, he offered hope that the midfielder will not...