Football Update: Gerrard and Torres could be rested- Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson has hinted that Steven Gerrard and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fernando-Torres-c13707 will be used carefully in the upcoming matches. Liverpool play 6 matches in the next 21 days and Roy Hodgson believes that avoiding injuries to key personnel will be a priority.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wolves-c40952 game as he played full 90 minutes in that game after a long injury lay off.
Liverpool boss suggested that Liverpool fans will see more of the same in the upcoming matches.
"I think we will have to hope that the fans and supporters understand that," said the 63-year-old.
"Fernando had a very serious knee injury, which seems to be in the past, but when you've had an injury there's always the little risk of reoccurrence.”
"And Steven, of course, is susceptible to muscle injury if he plays too many games one after the other”.
Hodgson is hopeful that some of his players, he labelled as “the Duracell bunnies”, such as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lucas-c22528 Leiva, will keep their fitness levels high and play the maximum number of games.
This will give Hodgson as chance to rest other players and rotate the squad around them. The fixture pile has occurred as a result of postponements of matches last month, due to heavy snow.
Hodgson, like other managers in the league is disappointed at the fixture pile up, but he refused to make any excuses and said that it’s the same for most other teams and not just Liverpool.
Hodgson believed although it is not the ideal situation and he would not have preferred to be in this situation but nothing can be done apart from playing these games and moving up the table.
If http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 can enjoy a good run of games here, it will see them jump up the table and close the gap between themselves and top 5.
Hodgson was satisfied with the fitness levels and was delighted that he has a near full squad to pick from.
"Our good fortune is that the squad going into these matches is relatively whole.”
"We don't have that many injuries, touch wood, so going into it our squad seems quite big and we probably have a little bit more chances of changing things around than some other teams.”
However, it is important the likes of Torres and Gerrard play as many games as possible as they are the players who can lift Liverpool up in the table and closer to where they want to be.
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