Joe Gomez was an unfortunate casualty from Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Brighton at Anfield last weekend.
The festive fixture list is unforgiving, and injuries have a cruel habit of arriving in clusters. Both Joe Gomez and Dominik Szoboszlai were casualties of Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Brighton.
Gomez limped off just 26 minutes into the clash with the Seagulls, forcing an early reshuffle that saw the Hungarian drafted into an unfamiliar right-back role to cover for the injured England international.
The 27-year-old defender went down with what appeared to be a hamstring injury – a concern that would prove serious enough to rule him out of immediate action.
The injury compounds an already precarious situation in Slot’s backline, where 18-year-old Giovanni Leoni is sidelined for the entire season with an ACL injury, leaving the Dutchman desperately thin in the centre-back department.
Now James Pearce of the Athletic has provided an update, ruling out Gomez for the visit to London to face Tottenham Hotspur but asserting that the issue is not serious regardless:
“Defender Joe Gomez is expected to miss the Tottenham game but the hamstring injury he picked up in the first half against Brighton is not serious. Given his history, Liverpool intend to adopt a cautious approach with their longest-serving player. However, there’s relief that the damage is relatively minor.”
The December period is traditionally one of the most congested in the football calendar, with fixtures coming thick and fast. Premier League matches are interspersed with European commitments and domestic cup ties, leaving managers to perform an impossible juggling act. Few squads escape December unscathed, and Liverpool’s experience this year has been no exception.
However, in more positive news, Dominik Szoboszlai’s injury concern is thought to be minor, and could feature vs Thomas Frank’s side this Saturday.
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