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Joe Gomez fears missing the rest of the season and potentially the European Championship, after sustaining an injury in England training on Wednesday.
The Liverpool defender underwent a scan immediately, and the results are expected to arrive on Thursday. While it won’t be known for sure until then, sources say there were immediate concerns about how he fell, given that no one else was around him. Some viewers thought that he had potentially caught his stallions in the grass, although that was unconfirmed.
The hope Wednesday night was that Gomez had not suffered a recurrence of the ACL injury that knocked him out of action a few seasons ago.
Goalkeeper Nick Pope revealed the anguish among his England teammates after Gomez fell.
“Joe made a pass or move with no one around him and he ended up on the ground and was obviously in a lot of pain. Watching Joe go through something like this and seeing how much pain he was in wasn’t easy for me or any of the guys. “
Meanwhile, England coach Gareth Southgate pointed to Gomez’s misfortune as an example of the consequences for players this season, claiming that he had advocated the introduction of five substitutes, a current source of debate in the Premier League, in the Nations League.
“The substitutes, my only comment was that we pushed for that in the Nations League. That was not in place in September, we felt it should have been, and ironically the president played a big role in pushing that forward. It’s an elite competition and it’s seeded and we felt it would help us with the well being of the players and trying to protect the players in this period so we felt it was a no-brainer.
“The calendar is somewhat broader and I am not in a position to affect that. Or the calendar, the accessories are in place. It requires everyone from FIFA, UEFA, the national organizations to organize the calendar is complicated but it was possible. The schedule for the next World Cup made it all possible. There was an opportunity, but that opportunity was lost and it remains to be seen if it can be rectified ”.
“With Joe, we knew the burden he’s had in the last six weeks or so. We gave him and the rest of the players who had been to European games that played on Sunday an extra day of recovery. However, something like this has still happened.
“There’s a lot of discussion about additional backups. But the bigger picture here is that everyone in the game needs to work together.
“There was an opportunity this year to think differently. The pandemic has caused all sorts of difficulties for people. But everyone has tried to cut the program down into a smaller period.”
“We’re going to see injuries. It’s a desperately sad situation. When you see the impact on an individual, it impacts you even more.
“A lot of these discussions should have happened in the summer. We could have adjusted the calendar as a whole and all worked together. But people haven’t.”
Southgate had previously expressed sympathy for Gomez, but also concern about the nature of the incident.
“I can’t tell you how bad it is because they haven’t done the scans yet. What was annoying was seeing him in a bit of pain. There was no one around him when it happened and I didn’t like that element. We have to wait for the scan.
“We cannot speculate on the exact nature of the injury. Our immediate thoughts are with him because he has had difficulties in the past. We hope and pray that it won’t be too long, but we’ll have to see. “
“I hate to see any of our players suffer and there is nothing worse… one of the worst things as an international coach is that you are borrowing players and something happens on your turn and you feel a responsibility and you start to regress but in this case, there is nothing we would have done otherwise.
“But, yeah, you just don’t want to see players missing for a long period of time. As a player, that’s the hardest thing in the sport and Joe has experienced it a couple of times, so we have even more hope that this is not that kind of situation. “
