Eight Liverpool players to miss Champions League clash against LASK clash as Andoni Iraola turns to academy

Eight Liverpool players will miss the upcoming Champions League clash against Austrian side LASK. Alexander Isak, Dominik Szoboszlai, and Cody Gakpo headline the fitness concerns after missing the team flight to Linz. Their absences add to existing injury layoffs for Hugo Ekitike, Conor Bradley, and Giovanni Leoni, alongside Federico Chiesa and Wataru Endo, who are ineligible after being omitted from Liverpool's European squad.

Manager Andoni Iraola has turned to Liverpool's youth ranks to replenish his 23-man traveling squad, calling up academy prospects Josh Sonni-Lambie and Wellity Lucky alongside other youngsters. Despite the squad absences, senior figures such as captain Virgil van Dijk, Alisson Becker, Florian Wirtz, Alexis Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch, and Bradley Barcola traveled to Austria.