Liverpool may quickly have a full-blown defensive damage disaster on their fingers in the event that they’re not cautious.
Conor Bradley pulled up on the turf within the second half of motion at Villa Park after having changed Trent Alexander-Arnold past the hour mark.
Arne Slot was compelled to interchange the 21-year-old with centre-back Jarell Quansah – with Joe Gomez additionally within the remedy room – to see out the rest of a 2-2 draw with Aston Villa.
Has Conor Bradley suffered a hamstring damage?
The indicators aren’t nice for the Northern Eire worldwide.
Fan footage taken at Villa Park by @asim_lfc confirmed Bradley showing to point to attending physios that his hamstring was inflicting him some issues.
A reasonably worrying preliminary prognosis from the younger fullback given the very fact he returned to first-team motion at the beginning of the 12 months after having picked up an analogous damage within the tail-end of 2024.
Appears like Bradley was complaining about his hamstring. Nice. #LFC pic.twitter.com/PX0syPAXDk
— Asim (@asim_lfc) February 19, 2025
On the very least, it appears the defender can be set to overlook out on key upcoming Premier League conferences with Manchester Metropolis (away) and Newcastle United (house).
“It’s tough however he felt a bit when he made a dash. He tried to proceed however needed to exit,” Arne Slot advised reporters at his post-match presser (by way of liverpoolfc.com).
“On a regular basis with accidents, I all the time say if a participant needs to exit himself, that’s not a promising signal.
“It is going to in all probability result in the very fact he’s in all probability 99.9 per cent not out there for Metropolis and I don’t anticipate him in opposition to Newcastle as effectively.
“Then we now have to see if it’s one or two weeks or if it’s going to be even longer.”
It’s such an unbelievable disgrace given we’ve seen some optimistic performances from Conor Bradley since that time!
Liverpool might want to handle Trent Alexander-Arnold rigorously
With Alexander-Arnold’s health ranges additionally being rigorously managed at this stage – therefore the choice to take off our No.66 within the second half – we’re strolling a little bit of an damage tightrope.
There’s now formally no senior backup for the right-back position ought to our vice-captain additionally endure an ill-timed damage within the coming days and weeks.
How precisely Arne Slot ought to go about managing the Actual Madrid-linked fullback’s minutes in every week’s price of soccer containing clashes with Metropolis and Newcastle, nonetheless, is sort of the ask.
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