Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp relayed positive news to Joe Gomez and Alexander-Arnold as they continue to return from injury.
What did Jurgen Klopp say?
According to the Reds boss, England’s international defenders are now arguing over their preseason plans. Joe Gomez took a back seat after a November 2020 knee ligament injury, while Trent Alexander-Arnold saw his Euro 2020 dreams dotted with a thigh problem. Comrades ahead with Stuttgart and FC Wacker Innsbruck on Tuesday Jurgen Klopp told Liverpool’s official website with Virgil van Dijk and Matip also returning to fitness, which is different for each of them. Klopp thinks there is absolutely no doubt that Joel Matip can play on Tuesday.
According to Jurgen Trent Alexander-Arnold is looking for him as he can, but Klopp will have to talk to the medical department and they will tell him if it’s too early. Klopp doesn’t think he can play a few minutes on Tuesday. Then Virgil and Joe Gomez found themselves in a similar situation, not quite the same, but similar. Both have done parts of their routine preparation, and then they have to do additional parts.
Yesterday they had to do a few sprints, hard sprints and things like that that they didn’t do in regular workouts, so they do extra things and sometimes a little less if the things they do are too intense for them. They are getting closer and closer, this is the impression they have. What they have done in training has worked very well so far and they will see, according to Klopp, when they can engage them in a full normal training session, Jurgen does not know.
Joe Gomez trained perfectly fine
Liverpool is eager to get a first-choice defensive unit together and Ibrahima Konate was added this summer. It has been speculated that Joe Gomez failed, but Jurgen Klopp insists that the rumor does not exist. Klopp added on a 24-year center-half, which is not at all. No failures. Not for Joe Gomez, nothing, he trained perfectly fine.