Liverpool’s centre-backs are often criticized for being injury prone. But is their availability that bad? Liverpool went into the international season in November with two of their four centre-backs injured.Ibrahima Konate and Joe Gomez both missed last weekend’s 3-0 win over Brentford, with manager Jurgen Klopp confirming both men’s absences were due to injury. Meanwhile, the French Football Federation later announced that the former has suffered a hamstring injury and has been ruled out of the France national team for two weeks
.The irony of Konate’s withdrawal from the national team came just weeks after Klopp criticized France manager Didier Deschamps for using the centre-back through injury despite Liverpool’s efforts to persuade him to do so. Van Dijk’s ban We have a 21-game squad from the start of the 2021/22 season but he has managed to stay in the squad for two games in a row this season after serving a two-match ban after being sent off against Newcastle. United.
 the 19 remaining games, he will miss three since testing positive for COVID-19 in December 2021, the 0-0 draw with Chelsea in April and the 3-2 defeat to Toulouse this month. Meanwhile, he has missed seven games in domestic cup and European competition, and even in last season’s final at Southampton, Klopp took the opportunity to change the team when the stakes were not high. He was rested for three games and missed the trips to Chelsea and illness respectively.He has missed a total of 18 games since suffering a season-ending foot injury in January 2021. He suffered a total of 13 injuries last season and in August he missed three games with a muscle injury and in October a calf injury kept him out for 10 games after the mid-season World Cup and Liverpool orchestrated with attention since his return. I did it. Two of the four centre-backs picked up injuries during the international break in November.
Ibrahima Konate and Joe Gomez both missed last weekend’s 3-0 win over Brentford, with manager Jurgen Klopp confirming both men’s absences were due to injury. Meanwhile, the French Football Federation later announced that the former has suffered a hamstring injury and has been ruled out of France’s national team for two weeks.Injury setbacks have forced Van Dijk to miss 21 of his picks since the start of the 2021/22 campaign, but he could be ruled out for two of those this season after playing two games after being sent off against Newcastle United.
This is expected to continue. But he has now returned to form this season and could demand a contract extension if he remains injury-free.
