Andoni Iraola confirmed Joe Gomez’s injury was the biggest disappointment from Liverpool’s 4-2 pre-season victory over Sunderland, with the defender forced off just seven minutes into the new head coach’s first game in charge.<\/p>\n
Speaking to LFCTV after the match, Iraola said: “Probably the worst news has been straight away the injury of Joe.<\/p>\n
“We were happy because we were going through training without losing any players and unluckily for us we’ve lost Joe straight away.<\/p>\n
“With Jeremy [Jacquet] we decided to take it easy with him, he’s had a lot of months without playing, he’s been training very well, but we’re going to take it easy with him.<\/p>\n
“He will play probably in the last game of this US tour, he will have time to have minutes, but we were kind of happy, but we’ve lost one now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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