. Fine margins ensured the defender’s wait to make his mark under Arne Slot moves on to Wembley.
Barring an unexpected selection decision from the Liverpool head coach on Sunday Quansah will start as an emergency right-back in the Carabao Cup final against Newcastle. Trent Alexander-Arnold is set to miss out with an ankle injury sustained against PSG on Tuesday, the second choice, Conor Bradley, remains sidelined with a hamstring problem and Slot’s third option, Joe Gomez, will not return from his own hamstring issue until the final weeks of the season. In many respects it is the opportunity Quansah has been longing for since the opening weekend of the season. Here it is, with the second League Cup winners’ medal of his young career at stake. The duel between the reinforcements, with Harvey Barnes likely to replace the suspended Anthony Gordon on Newcastle’s left flank, could prove significant.
Liverpool may not be in the mood to dwell on positives from their performance against Luis Enrique’s slick and more resilient version of PSG, even if a penalty shootout is what ultimately separated an exhilarating contest between two of the best teams in Europe. But the central defender’s adaptation to an unaccustomed full-back role after his 73rd-minute introduction to a game of the highest quality was one. Not that the loss of Alexander-Arnold can be portrayed as anything but a setback for Liverpool as they attempt to lift the gloom of their Champions League elimination by claiming the first trophy of the Slot era.
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