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| Liverpool are likely to be without Daniel Sturridge until the new year after confirming the striker has suffered his second thigh strain of an injury-blighted season. | Liverpool are likely to be without Daniel Sturridge until the new year after confirming the striker has suffered his second thigh strain of an injury-blighted season. |
| The 25-year-old was sent for a scan on Wednesday having pulled up in training for what was scheduled to be his return from a 10-week lay-off against Crystal Palace on Sunday. Tests have revealed a fresh thigh injury, unrelated to the thigh strain he suffered while training with England on 5 September but with a similar recovery time anticipated. | The 25-year-old was sent for a scan on Wednesday having pulled up in training for what was scheduled to be his return from a 10-week lay-off against Crystal Palace on Sunday. Tests have revealed a fresh thigh injury, unrelated to the thigh strain he suffered while training with England on 5 September but with a similar recovery time anticipated. |
| Sturridge missed six weeks with that initial problem and, though Liverpool have not put a timeframe on his latest absence, he is expected to be out for a further six weeks and is therefore unlikely to play again in 2014. | Sturridge missed six weeks with that initial problem and, though Liverpool have not put a timeframe on his latest absence, he is expected to be out for a further six weeks and is therefore unlikely to play again in 2014. |
| The diagnosis represents a major setback for the England international and manager Brendan Rodgers, with his team toiling in the absence of last season’s strike partnership of Sturridge and Luis Suárez and their alternatives – Mario Balotelli, Rickie Lambert and Fabio Borini – without a goal in a combined 888 minutes of Premier League football. | The diagnosis represents a major setback for the England international and manager Brendan Rodgers, with his team toiling in the absence of last season’s strike partnership of Sturridge and Luis Suárez and their alternatives – Mario Balotelli, Rickie Lambert and Fabio Borini – without a goal in a combined 888 minutes of Premier League football. |
| Sturridge has not played for Liverpool since the 3-0 win at Tottenham Hotspur on 31 August. He suffered a thigh strain that necessitated a six-week lay-off while training with England later that week and then tore a calf muscle on his return to full training with Liverpool in October. The forward had missed 10 weeks in total prior to his latest setback, and 14 of Liverpool’s 17 games this season. | |
| Rodgers’ team are currently 11th in the Premier League and must beat Ludogorets in Bulgaria next week to preserve their chances of progressing in the Champions League. | |
| Another six-week recovery period for Sturridge, who has yet to return ahead of schedule from his injury problems, would see the striker miss Premier League games against Palace, Stoke City, Leicester City, Sunderland, Manchester United, Arsenal, Burnley and Swansea City. He will also miss Champions League games against Ludogorets and Basel plus the Capital One Cup quarter-final at Bournemouth. | Another six-week recovery period for Sturridge, who has yet to return ahead of schedule from his injury problems, would see the striker miss Premier League games against Palace, Stoke City, Leicester City, Sunderland, Manchester United, Arsenal, Burnley and Swansea City. He will also miss Champions League games against Ludogorets and Basel plus the Capital One Cup quarter-final at Bournemouth. |