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Jeremie Frimpong’s debut season at Liverpool has turned into a stop-start nightmare, dominated by repeated muscle setbacks that have wrecked any chance of rhythm under Arne Slot. The Dutch right-back arrived from Bayer Leverkusen amid huge excitement but has already suffered three separate muscular injuries.
Each issue has been hamstring-related, with one layoff alone ruling him out for around two months and costing him 12 consecutive games across October and November. Across all competitions for club and country, those problems have already seen him miss 18 matches.
The latest blow came in the Champions League against Qarabag at Anfield, where Frimpong pulled up just minutes into the game while tracking back defensively and immediately clutched his hamstring before being forced off inside the opening four minutes.
It came at a bad time with Conor Bradley out for the rest of the season, forcing Slot into employing the likes of Dominik Szoboszlai and Wataru Endo on the right-flank. However, it seems the 25-year-old
Lewis Steele of the Daily Mail has suggested that Frimpong could training once again within the next two weeks if all goes to plan at the AXA:
“Jeremie Frimpong’s injury is not thought to be a serious one and the Dutchman could return to training in the next fortnight or so if all goes well. How they need that. Just when Frimpong has got going with form and fitness, he pulls up again, this latest groin problem his third injury since joining the club after two hamstring blows.”
“Joe Gomez also trained on Tuesday and, though tonight’s game [vs Sunderland] is probably too soon in terms of starting, there are signs that Liverpool are just getting out of their defensive injury crisis.”
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