{"id":571968,"date":"2020-11-11T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=571968"},"modified":"2020-11-11T15:37:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:37:40","slug":"joe-gomez-england-manager-gareth-southgate-gives-update-on-defenders-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/11\/11\/joe-gomez-england-manager-gareth-southgate-gives-update-on-defenders-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Gomez: England Manager Gareth Southgate Gives Update on Defender&#8217;s Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England boss Gareth Southgate is &#8220;hopeful&#8221; that the injury suffered by Joe Gomez is not serious, but admits that it&#8217;s &#8220;not a good situation&#8221;. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/liverpool\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a> defender was inflicted with a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/11\/11\/report-joe-gomez-suffers-injury-during-england-training\/\" target=\"_self\">reportedly serious knee injury<\/a> in training earlier today ahead of England&#8217;s friendly against the Republic of Ireland and their Nations League matches against Belgium and Iceland.<\/p>\n<h2>England Manager Gareth Southgate Gives Update on Joe Gomez Injury<\/h2>\n<h3>Hopeful Joe Gomez Injury isn&#8217;t as Serious as Feared<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking in a press conference on Wednesday evening, Southgate insisted that he was hopeful for Gomez&#8217;s situation but added that he is highly unlikely to play in any of the Three Lions&#8217; games in this international break &#8211; and a further statement from England confirmed that Gomez has now withdrawn from the squad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Get well soon, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/J_Gomez97?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@J_Gomez97<\/a> \ud83d\udc4a<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 England (@England) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/England\/status\/1326593032297336833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/liverpool-transfer-news-gomez-injury-19258515\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told reporters<\/a>: &#8220;I can&#8217;t tell you how serious it is because he is yet to have scans. What was upsetting to see, he was in a fair bit of pain. There was nobody around him when the injury happened. I didn&#8217;t like that element of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we&#8217;ve just got to wait and see what the scans show. We&#8217;re all hopeful for him that it&#8217;s not what it might be. But it&#8217;s not a good situation. I don&#8217;t see him being involved in the games with us, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t speculate the exact nature of the injury. It&#8217;s not possible until we&#8217;ve seen scans. My immediate thoughts are with him. He&#8217;s had some difficulties with injuries in the past. We&#8217;re hoping and praying it is not going to be a long-term one. We&#8217;ll just have to see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Southgate Bemoans Season Planning<\/h3>\n<p>Injuries have been commonplace so far this season due to the heavily-congested calendar owing to the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez joins an already long list even just from his club side, with Liverpool now missing three of their main defenders after injuries to Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk too.<\/p>\n<p>On the fixture pile-up and its impact on players, Southgate added: &#8220;With Joe [Gomez] a good example: we knew the load he has had in the last six weeks or so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We gave him and the other players who had been in European matches who played Sunday, an extra day&#8217;s recovery. Yet still something like this has happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8220;There was an opportunity this year to think differently. The pandemic has thrown up all sorts of difficulties for people. But everybody has tried to cram the programme into a smaller period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of these discussions should have happened in the summer. We could have adjusted the calendar in its entirety and all worked together. 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