Liverpool’s manager, Arne Slot, has confirmed that Joe Gomez requested that he be retired against Plymouth Argyle because he feared that “things would be wrong” if he tried to continue.
The 27 -year -old captured a very rotated Liverpool team against a side of Argyle that led to the championship table after winning only five of its 30 games.
But it lasted only ten minutes of a Liverpool game would continue to lose 1-0Courtesy of Ryan Hardie’s penalty after the Harvey Harvey Handball Elliott.
Gomez has just returned to action after suffering an injury in an hamstrock on the 5-0 victory over West Ham United At the end of December, and the slot confirmed after the game that was not yet sure if the versatile defender had suffered a reappearance of the same problem.
“I’m not too safe. I’m not too safe if it was the same leg, but I didn’t have time to ask,” Slot told journalists. “It was clear, I think we all know what time he felt a little insecure at (no) because he did not do again.
“Then he said,” I’m not sure 100 percent and I am afraid that if I make an additional sprint thing wrong. “”
“I guess he is not torn, but he did not feel good for him. Fully recovered after yesterday’s training session.
“This suddenly caused us to be with a few more young people on the pitch than the idea before the game, but still there was enough quality on the pitch to get a better result than this.”
The slot chose to rest Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate for the trip to Home Park, with the duo even on the bench for the current Premier League Leaders. As such, Gomez gave way to the young Ica of the full part Isaac Mabaya when he left, the young man later sacrificed himself in the second half Liverpool tried to return to the tie.
