Despite having set out with the team to Asia, defender Joe Gomez of Liverpool had to return to England soon due to problems with Achilles. This is the information that coach Arne Slot of the Merseyside region is confirmed.
Ahead of the friendly match between Liverpool and Milan, Slot when asked about Gomez's health status gave the answer: “Of course, Gomez attended some Liverpool training sessions earlier this week, but unfortunately he felt Achilles pain so he could not continue.”
“We conducted the inspection and agreed that it was better to let Gomez return to him. If Gomez kept staying here, he would not help Liverpool, but did not receive the best care.
Slot's sharing also means that Gomez not only misses the match between Liverpool and Milan, but he also has to be the audience when the “red brigade” compares with Yokohama Marinos in Japan next week. Gomez has just experienced sad 20/25 season even though his team won the Premier League championship. The reason is because the 28 -year -old player often has to play for injury and only used by Slot coach 17 times on all fronts.
With Gomez returning to the land of fog, and Jarell Quanusah has just moved to Leverkusen for £ 30 million (not to mention £ 30 million), Liverpool currently has only two reliable center -backs Virgil Van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate.
Of these, Konate is also giving up because he has reached the “sight” of both Real Madrid, Barca and Bayern Munich. When there is not much choice for the center -back position, it is not excluded that Slot coach will have to drag midfielder Ryan Gravenberch lower to mainly undertake the defensive task.
