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Liverpool will assess Ryan Gravenberch after the Dutch midfielder limped off with a twisted ankle against Manchester United this weekend, with trips to Eintracht Frankfurt and Brentford to come later this week.
Gravenberch was replaced by Curtis Jones with around a third of the game remaining. Cody Gakpo leveled the score shortly after, but Ruben Amorim's team earned a victory thanks to Harry Maguire's header past Giorgi Mamardashvili.
"I took him off because he twisted his ankle. Is he an injury concern? That's what we have to wait and see tomorrow," Slot explained in his post-match press conference at Anfield.
"We have to play in two days again because again we have to play three games in seven days, like we had to do after the last international break. There is not a lot of time for players to recover but the good thing is we have more than one good midfielder."
Mamardashvili was playing because Alisson Becker remains out with a hamstring issue. There has been no exact timeline placed on his return to action yet.
Alisson was substituted during the Champions League defeat against Galatasaray. "He is not training with us, so he is out," Slot said on Friday.
"Like I always say, it’s so difficult to say because the end phase of rehab can always give you positives or negatives, but he will not play on the weekend and also not next week."
Wataru Endo, who dropped out of playing for Japan with a minor issue that he picked up against Chelsea, was also absent against Manchester United.
There has been no clarity yet on how long he might be out for, though the 32-year-old would be unlikely to feature much beyond a few minutes here and there off the bench anyway.
The only other injury for Liverpool at the moment is a long-term one: Giovanni Leoni. The Italian teenager has undergone ACL surgery for the issue that he sustained in the League Cup win over Southampton.
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"Do we lose confidence? I cannot see it yet, because every single game we've lost, we were able to create in the second half an unbelievable amount of chances," Slot said on the defeat to Manchester United.
"If you look back at all three games we've lost in the Premier League, if you just put all the highlights [next to] each other, you would say it's hardly possible that they lose this game.
"So if we can keep producing what we are doing and do a few things a little bit better, then there is every reason to expect that we start to win football games again.
"But I cannot promise you that on Wednesday evening we are again able to create eight, nine or 10 open chances. I hope so, and with the players we have then it will lead in the end to us scoring more goals."
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