Liverpool have been handed a huge injury boost, with Joe Gomez back in training.
The defender had been sidelined since sustaining a lower-leg fracture in the Reds’ Premier League encounter with Burnley on December 5 but has taken significant steps in his recovery since.
Gomez is still working individually as he continues his rehabilitation, but Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has confirmed that he is edging ever closer to full fitness.
Speaking to the club’s official website, as cited in a report from Sky Sports, the boss delivered a positive update on his young defender’s condition. He said:
It is nice – Joe is not injured anymore and nearly fit. He will not be in the afternoon training session because he has to do something else – he has to work on his endurance, that’s how it is and how the boys always have to do it, like Ox [Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain] had to do it when he was finally back in training.
After a long time, I think Joe was out for 15 weeks, that is long, so he needs to now create the basis again for the rest of the season.
Gomez was in fine form for the first half of the season and developed a formidable partnership with fellow centre-back Virgil van Dijk.
The England international’s return to action will come as a big boost for Klopp, who will hope to have the bulk of his first-team players available for selection in the run-in towards the end of the season.
