The Liverpool injury list just keeps on growing and growing. The Reds are without a host of key stars due to illness, injury and just rotten luck. As the fixtures pile up and the players drop out, strong performances are becoming hard to come by. The Liverpool injury list does have a major long term benefit though: youth players are being thrown in at the deep end.
Liverpool injury list
The Liverpool injury list makes for sorry reading.
The Reds have been without their summer superstar signing Thiago for what feels like eternity.
The Spaniard picked up a knock in the Merseyside Derby and hasn’t been seen since.
Virgil van Dijk has also been absent since the Derby, the Dutchman ruptured his ACL in the tie.
Joe Gomez will miss most of the rest of the season due to a knee injury of his own.
Meanwhile, Trent Alexander-Arnold has been unavailable since before the international break with a calf problem.
Stuttering results
Injuries and a congested fixture list have caused heavy rotation in the side and in turn a stuttering run of results.
At the time of writing, Liverpool have failed to win in their last two – losing to Atalanta and drawing at Brighton.
The performances have been of the ilk you’d expect from a side stitched together from squad players and youth graduates.
The team have been disjointed in possession and sloppy out of it.
Major benefit of Liverpool injury list
We’ve got to look for positives in this.
One major benefit of the Liverpool injury crisis is that youth players are getting regular minutes.
Given the quality of the Reds’ first team it is difficult for these youngsters to get minutes usually.
They are now being thrown into the deep end, learning on the job.
This experience will prove vital for these players in the long run.
We will also know that we can rely on the likes of Rhys Williams when we need to in future.
In years to come we could be looking back and saying ‘that injury crisis was the making of Neco Williams’.
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