Liverpool's Full Back Injury Crisis

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I think this is true in a stable defence, where a player can be allowed to either essentially play a very defensive or attacking game and other players instructed to cover or they can be helped through by the CB inside them. In an unsettled team like ours there is a real danger they get exposed in what has in recent years become a more important position in both attacking and defensive aspects of the game.

This game and the lack of a settled defence makes this a really bad game to blood a youngster from the start IMO

[Rudo]

There's no way Aurelio will play on Monday, he's never been rushed back from injury before and the club isn't going to take this risk surely. Bring back Konchesky.

I was actually wondering about that, could we call him back?

Desperate times call for desperate measures and all that.

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I was actually wondering about that, could we call him back?

Desperate times call for desperate measures and all that.

I guess it depends on the terms of his loan. Personally I hope we can't, I don't want to see him in a Liverpool shirt ever again.

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We're still paying his wages though.

[RedReet]

This game and the lack of a settled defence makes this a really bad game to blood a youngster from the start IMO

Personally I don’t think Flanagan or Robinson are good enough yet to make the step up, but if we had good enough players I’d have no problem promoting them at a tender age. Kelly for instance came into a struggling defence and made the RB position his own.

I guess it depends on the terms of his loan. Personally I hope we can't, I don't want to see him in a Liverpool shirt ever again.

The LFC channel indicated that we can call him back.

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There's no way Aurelio will play on Monday, he's never been rushed back from injury before and the club isn't going to take this risk surely. Bring back Konchesky.

I'd rather that Steve Clarke comes out of retirement and play there before Konchesky.

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Personally I don’t think Flanagan or Robinson are good enough yet to make the step up, but if we had good enough players I’d have no problem promoting them at a tender age. Kelly for instance came into a struggling defence and made the RB position his own.

I haven't seen enough of the reserves or youth games to comment TBH

Sometimes throwing the kids in works, sometimes it doesn't, Kelly had at least had first team experience on loan at Huddersfield and had been on the bench and played in lesser games (Carling Cup, early stage european games) before being thrown in for Premiership games, neither of these kids have that experience at the moment, so throwing them in at this stage from the start in a big game is a big risk.

The LFC channel indicated that we can call him back.

Lets hope it doesn't come to that

[RedReet]

Considering the circumstances I would actually take the risk and play one of them, but ideally as you've mentioned you'd have liked to have seen them prove themselves at senior level before being thrown in at the deep end.

[Reece]

Play Kuyt at RB, and Aurelio at LB, with the two youngsters on the bench if plan A proves a disaster

[Bender]

Glenn Johnson out for at least a month due to his hamstring being strung

[Rudo]

So that's Johnson, Agger, Kelly and Gerrard out for the rest of the season(more of less).

We simply can't cope with 4 first team players out at the same time.

The only positive is that is highlights our lack of depth in the squad, and hence drastic action is taken in the summer to address the problem.

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So that's Johnson, Agger, Kelly and Gerrard out for the rest of the season(more of less).

We simply can't cope with 4 first team players out at the same time.

The only positive is that is highlights our lack of depth in the squad, and hence drastic action is taken in the summer to address the problem.

To be fair I think that it's due to them all being in similar positions (ie defence). We have lost 3 of our first choice back four, I think most teams would struggle with that, the fact that we were already lacking cover there makes matters worse (we already knew this). If the injuries were spread more evenly through the squad rather than mainly affecting the positions were the squad is wafer thin, we wouldn't have such a problem.

To be honest I don't think this tells us anything we didn't already know.

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So that's Johnson, Agger, Kelly and Gerrard out for the rest of the season(more of less).

We simply can't cope with 4 first team players out at the same time.

The only positive is that is highlights our lack of depth in the squad, and hence drastic action is taken in the summer to address the problem.

Rudo at best of times you don't want 3/4 that you've named in the team when they are fit. "lets wait and see attitude" , "always injured", "over the hill" "great show from our 20m man (said sarcastically)"

Now you say we can't cope.

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[Rudo]

Rudo at best of times you don't want 3/4 that you've named in the team when they are fit. "lets wait and see attitude" , "always injured", "over the hill" "great show from our 20m man (said sarcastically)"

Now you say we can't cope.

Listen here son, i don't want any Liverpool player injured at any time, nevermind when our squad is so weak and lacking in numbers.

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