Sophie Roman Haug To Miss 4-6 Weeks With Ankle Injury
The Liverpool FC Women’s striker has been in a walking boot since taking a knock against Manchester City
The Liverpool FC Women have struggled to get results in the early stages of the WSL, recording just one win in their first five matches. Unfortunately for manager Matt Beard, he will be without one of his key pieces for an extended period of time. Ahead of Liverpool’s match with Aston Villa, Beard revealed that star striker Sophie Roman Haug would likely be out for the next month or so after sustaining an ankle injury a couple of weeks ago against Manchester City.
“Unfortunately she is going to be out for the next few, maybe the next four to six, weeks”, Beard said of Roman Haug.
“She is in a [protective] boot with an ankle and foot problem so she won’t be available for the upcoming games.”
In her stead, Beard will have the likes of Cornelia Kapocs, Leanne Kiernan, and Mia Enderby to call on to partner with starlet Olivia Smith.
It wasn’t all bad news on the injury front, thankfully. After seeing Grace Fisk make her season debut before the international break, and the return of Ceri Holland, Beard has a couple of his stalwarts available. Holland played significant minutes for Wales shortly after returning from injury.
“Obviously the Welsh girls, Ceri [Holland] and Gemma [Evans] played 120 minutes in the game the other night, so that’s a big toll on the body. But it’s been a good international window for the players, everyone has come back fit and healthy, so it’s been a good window.”
Beard said that training was modified for Holland and a couple of others to help manage their workload. The Liverpool training staff are very cognizant of overtraining and want to avoid the reoccurrence of a muscle injury.
“We’ve modified her training today with a couple of other players that needed to be modified off the back of their minutes but she’ll be fit for selection, it just depends what minutes she can play. Especially coming off the back of the injury she had, we’ve got to make sure that we manage that properly and there is no recurrence of anything.”
There is one last bit of good news ahead of the Aston Villa match. After playing several matches with no back up goalkeeper on the bench, Teagan Micah is finally fit enough to be in the matchday squad. According to Beard the Australian keeper got a full week of training in.
“Teagan is fully fit now. The international window came at a good time… she’s been in full training this week so yeah, Teagan will be back available for selection.”
Source: liverpooloffside.sbnation.com
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