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12/09 03:49 CST Salah-less Liverpool plays Inter in Champions League.
Barcelona, Bayern, Chelsea all in action
Salah-less Liverpool plays Inter in Champions League. Barcelona, Bayern,
Chelsea all in action
By JAMES ELLINGWORTH
AP Sports Writer
After leaving Mohamed Salah at home, Liverpool needs to show it can win without
the Egyptian forward as Arne Slot's team takes on Inter Milan in the Champions
League on Tuesday.
On a night when Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Tottenham are all in
action, the focus is on Liverpool after Salah said Saturday it "seems like the
club has thrown me under the bus." Liverpool's response was to leave him out of
the squad for its trip to Italy.
Liverpool's poor recent form boosts Inter's chances of picking up a fifth win
in six games. A win for 13th-place Liverpool would put Slot's team back into
the hunt for the top eight seedings for the knockout stages.
After losing its last Champions League game 3-0 to Chelsea, Barcelona aims to
recover at home to struggling Eintracht Frankfurt. It will have to do without
defender Ronald Araujo, who is suspended after his red card against Chelsea and
has also been unavailable for personal reasons.
Seventh-place Chelsea is unbeaten in four Champions League games and visits
Atalanta aiming to strengthen its hold on a top-eight spot offering direct
entry to the round of 16. Bayern can earn its fifth win of the league stage by
beating Sporting Lisbon in an early kickoff.
Tottenham, which lost 5-3 to Paris Saint-Germain last time out, has an easier
task against Czech team Slavia Prague. Atletico Madrid visits PSV Eindhoven,
Monaco hosts Galatasaray and Union Saint-Gilloise plays Marseille.
One game starts in an unusually early window at 1530 GMT (10:30 a.m. ET) as
Kazakhstan's Kairat Almaty hosts Greece's Olympiacos.
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