MatchBrighton & Hove Albion v Liverpool: Team news

Salah suffered a muscle injury in the second half of Wednesday night's Champions League win over Galatasaray.

The issue will sideline him for the Premier League lunchtime kick-off at Amex Stadium and Egypt's forthcoming friendlies.

"The good thing for Liverpool and for us is that we go to an international break," Arne Slot said at his pre-match press conference. "The bad thing for Egypt is that he can't go there.

"We are hoping also with what Mo has shown in the past that he can recover faster than other players might in similar situations because he takes such good care of his body. History has shown that he can be earlier back than some others.

"But it's only two weeks when we go again so let's hope in that period of time he can be back."

There is a question mark on the availability of Joe Gomez.

The defender was an unused substitute for the meeting with Galatasaray, having been a fitness doubt going into it.

Slot continued: "Joe was on the bench but he wasn't able to come in. We tried to postpone it as far as we could.

"He already told me before the start of the game he didn't feel good. I said, 'OK, let's wait to half-time [and] a miracle can happen – we might need you in extra-time.' He might be available tomorrow but definitely not to start."

The quick turnaround from the game in midweek will also come into Slot's thinking when he decides on his starting line-up.

"Jeremie Frimpong, for example, is such an explosive player, made so many sprints and so many times this season, unfortunately, when games came fast he got injured," said Slot.

"Now Joe being out, so you can already understand which questions we have to answer."

Stefan Bajcetic, Conor Bradley, Wataru Endo, Alexander Isak and Giovanni Leoni are long-term absentees.

Brighton have been given a boost by the news that Carlos Baleba and Kaoru Mitoma are available again.

Both players were forced to sit out their 1-0 victory away at Sunderland last weekend.

With Mitoma absent, Diego Gomez was deployed on the right wing and Yankuba Minteh on the opposite side.

Discussing his options out wide, Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler told reporters: "For me, it's great to have these three players at the moment available and in a great shape.

"That makes us in general more unpredictable, so we can change during the game, we can change in half-time, we can change with a sub. That makes us more flexible and therefore it's competition.

"The competition is on, they have to fight for the places and then I'm also sure that we can really benefit from different skills, different weapons in each position."

As it stands, Stefanos Tzimas and Adam Webster are the only Seagulls missing.

Last match

Sunderland 0-1 Brighton (March 14): Verbruggen, Wieffer, Van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu, Milner, Gross, Hinshelwood, Gomez, Minteh, Welbeck.

Liverpool 4-0 Galatasaray (March 18): Alisson, Frimpong, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez, Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Salah, Ekitike.