Brendan Rodgers stated that playing 120 minutes on Tuesday against League One side Notts County will not affect his side’s performance against Manchester United this Sunday. Liverpool fans were given a scare yesterday as the club was forced to go into extra time against the League One side. The Reds went up 2-0 in the match before seeing Adam Coombes of Notts County level the score just six minutes before the end of regulation, forcing the match into extra time.
Liverpool did end up winning the match 4-2 on a Daniel Sturridge match-winner, his fourth goal in three games.
Brendan Rodgers believes the side has plenty of time to recover, especially since the manager was able to give a number of younger Liverpool players minutes in the match. Eighteen year old Raheem Sterling started and scored for the side while Jordan Ibe and Andre Wisdom also featured for the club in their victory.
“We’ve got plenty of recovery time now for the players. That was the idea – that I could put some of the senior guys in knowing there was enough recuperation period after the game, and obviously to give our young players good experience playing in a competitive game. Young Jordon Ibe is 17, Raheem 18 and Andre Wisdom 20 years of age,” Rodgers said, according to Liverpool’s official website.
“They’ll all be fine, they’ll recover well and we’ll be excited now looking forward to that game on Sunday. We’ll assess the injuries tomorrow but we’ll just see what players are available for us. There’s no doubt we need more numbers but it’s about quality – hopefully we can bring that quality in.”
Rodgers may not have lost the match but may have lost center back Kolo Toure to injury as the defender had to be stretchered off the pitch with a groin injury. The club was forced to finish with ten men as Aly Cissokho and Joe Allen were also unable to finish the match.
No comments:
Post a Comment