Just when you thought it was safe to start dreaming again, Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge suffers a fresh injury. The 25-year old, who has already been out for the past six weeks after picking up a thigh injury on England duty, has pulled his calf preparing to face Queens Park Rangers tomorrow — and things aren’t looking good.
“Daniel has pulled his calf,” Reds boss Brendan Rodgers told the Liverpool ECHO with a obvious sense of disappointment. “He’s looking at being out for another two to four weeks.” With the Anfied outfit in ninth place in the league and on the precipice in the Group Stages of the Champions League, we’ll now be without hands down our most potent attacking threat for what could very well be another month.
Although their domestic fixture list looks more than manageable for the next couple of weeks with meetings with QPR, Hull City and Newcastle United on the horizon, when you shoe horn in a home and away with defending European champions Real Madrid into that mix, Swansea City in the League Cup and look just past that to when Chelsea come to town, a fresh injury blow to Sturridge looks more and more like a massive setback.
Regardless, it’s not time to panic quite yet as Rodgers was quick to point out. “We’ve made an indifferent start in terms of performances and results but I am quite relaxed about it” continued the Reds boss. “I said we will see where we’re at after 10 games. After seven games we’re one point off the top four. If Phil Jagielka hadn’t scored that worldie strike we’d have an extra two points and be in the top four.”
Thankfully, he’s right — but that doesn’t mean things are going to be easy.
