Your Liverpool FC morning digest as Manchester City duo suffer cuts before Saturday's big match and Kostas Tsimikas explains his early return from international duty

Your Liverpool FC morning digest as Manchester City duo suffer cuts before Saturday's big match and Kostas Tsimikas explains his early return from international duty.

The morning Liverpool FC headlines for Thursday, November 23. 

Man City suffer double injury scare before Liverpool as Pep Guardiola faces nervous wait

Manchester City's English stars Jack Grealish and Phil Foden were left with bad cuts from the Three Lions' match with North Macedonia.

There had been concerns beforehand about the safety of the Tose Proeski Arena's pitch in Skopje, and more criticism arrived after the full-time whistle in England's 1-1 draw.

Grealish was just one who complained of the state of the surface, branding it "awful" and explaining he and his club team-mates wounds. Pep Guardiola has a mounting injury list ahead of City's meeting with Liverpool in the Premier League on Saturday lunchtime.

'Not the best' - Kostas Tsimikas makes honest Liverpool admission as four players return

Kostas Tsimikas has revealed the reason he missed Greece's final Euro 24 qualifier against France was not down to injury.

When the full-back's name was not included on Gus Poyet's team sheet ahead of kick-off, fear began to set in that Jurgen Klopp would be without his only senior left-back option for the trip to the Etihad Stadium.

However, Tsimikas was not injured, and only missed the game as to not pick up a suspension that would rule him out of a "more important" play-off fixture to reach the finals in Germany.

The 27-year-old also delved into the topic of his early-season form and confidence.