Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

At 33 his game time will be decreasing either way,he will be coming off the bench or going on it after 60 minutes more often as next season goes on , two more seasons at the club imo.

Liverpool had more players miss games through injury than any other team. The next closest was 40 games behind or something like that.

Arthur (26), Firmino (10), Keita (22), Milner (9) and Oxlade-Chamberlain (14) have missed 81 games in total due to injury this season. Thiago has missed 16 games. Those six players account for 40% of all the games missed by players in the squad. A consequence of the unavailability of the midfielders is that Bajcetic was overplayed in a short period of time and sustained an injury which has caused him to miss 13 games.

Games missed through injury for 2022/23 :

Diaz : 31
Arthur : 26
Jota : 23
Keita : 22
Ramsay : 19
Thiago : 16
Oxlade-Chamberlain : 14
Bajcetic : 13
Konate : 13
Firmino : 10
Milner : 9
Jones : 7
Nunez : 7
Van Dijk : 7
Gomez : 5
Matip : 5
Henderson : 4
Robertson : 4
Carvalho : 2
Alexander-Arnold : 1

The data was gathered from Transfermarkt, 26/05/2023.

Van Dijk picked up a hamstring injury against Brentford in the New Years Day game and was replaced by Matip at half time. He missed the next 7 games before his return for the Newcastle game where Nick Pope lost his head after 20 minutes.

Brentford L 3-1
Wolves (FA Cup, 3rd Round)
Brighton L 3-0
Wolves (FA Cup, 3rd Round Replay)
Chelsea D 0-0
Brighton (FA Cup, 4th Round)
Wolves L 3-0
Everton D 0-0
Newcastle W 2-0

Hopefully Jude wins today, top scorer too, after the sale of Haaland that's impressive from a midfielders, what we so lack, goals from midfield,

2 down after 25 minutes while Bayern lead 1-0.

Looking like 11 years in a row for Bayern, was Klopp the last manager to upset that? Have a feeling the english league will be the same

Is Bellimgham injured? surely unless he had two broken legs he should of played some part in that game

Not a good sign so if he is signing for Real. No doubt if he was signing for us he would probably be out for the season

It seems to be the formula for most players after leaving Liverpool, some exceptions but I'd say easily 75% of players that leave don't always find greener grass.

Salah signed on the condition we'd be competitive, and then we signed no one in midfield, so I can see why '' there is no excuse''

In fairness to Konate, it wasn't his fault that he got taken out of it by an idiotic challenge in the final pre-season friendly. That knee injury kept him out of the team until October. In January, he suffered a hamstring injury which kept him out for 4 weeks.

On the subject of hamstring injuries, there seemed to be an excessive amount of them in the squad this season. In total, 9 players missed 70 games while recovering. I think the timing of the injuries may be significant. There was a cluster of 5 in a 6 week period beginning in pre-season and extending through the first 4 weeks of the season. The second group of injuries occurred in the 8 week period after the World Cup.

Van Dijk : 1 Jan, 7 games
Konate : 30 Jan, 5 games
Gomez : 21 Feb, 5 games
Thiago : 6 Aug, 6 games
Henderson : 31 Aug, 4 games
Keita : 1 Aug, 18 games
Milner : 22 Dec, 6 games
Oxlade-Chamberlain : 16 Jul, 14 games
Jota : 1 Aug, 5 games

By comparison, there were 3 hamstring injuries in the squad during the 2021/22 season.

What was that!!!!! I'll take it though.

That was like the Liverpool defence for most of the season for the Jota goal

One for Bobby now too... beautiful for him to get one in his last game.

1-2

2-2

Oof, bad enough from Kelleher there, Alisson would've snaffled that up.