UEFA confirm 2 new players in Liverpool squad – 20-year-old could finally debut – Liverpool FC

Liverpool have added two extra gamers to their Europa League squad forward of the conflict with Sparta Prague, although one in all them has not made the journey.

The Reds tackle Sparta within the first leg of their last-16 tie on Thursday night, with 23 gamers travelling to the Czech Republic to participate.

That included, for the primary time within the Europa League and the second time this season, 20-year-old Polish ahead Mateusz Musialowski.

UEFA have now confirmed the registration of each Musialowski and Jayden Danns, who at the moment are eligible to function within the Europa League for Liverpool by way of listing B.

Danns, nonetheless, was not within the travelling squad after struggling a concussion towards Nottingham Forest.

Guidelines stipulate that golf equipment can register a limiteless variety of gamers aged 21 or beneath exterior of their preliminary Europa League squad, offered they’ve been on the books for 2 or extra years.

That’s the reason neither Trey Nyoni, 16, or Amara Nallo, 17, are included regardless of coaching with the primary group within the buildup.

Nyoni and Nallo have been signed in the summertime, from Leicester and West Ham respectively, that means they’d have wanted to take one of many 25 spots on listing A.

For Musialowski, involvement at Sparta brings his second glimpse of first-team soccer up to now this season, having travelled with Liverpool for the FA Cup win over Southampton final month – although he didn’t make the matchday squad.

The versatile attacker might be on the bench towards Sparta, with golf equipment in a position to identify 12 substitutes for video games in UEFA competitions.

If he have been to return on it might mark a long-awaited debut for Musialowski, who joined from Polish facet SMS Lodz in 2020 and has been extremely rated all through his time within the academy.

His solely look for Jurgen Klopp‘s facet up to now got here in a 3-0 defeat to Strasbourg in a pre-season pleasant at Anfield in 2022.

Along with his contract as a consequence of expire on the finish of the season, nonetheless, the possibilities are that Musialowski shouldn’t be being slated for a long-term position.