(Video) “Opportunities have been cut short” – Joe Gomez on struggling to maintain game time and form with injuries

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Joe Gomez was in a position as being the centre-back that partnered Virgil van Dijk but looks to have dropped down the pecking order.

Sublime form of Joel Matip and Ibou Konate has been paired with a string of injury issues for our No.12, meaning that he hasn’t started a Premier League game this season and just one in the Champions League.

It’s been a tough period for the former Charlton Athletic man but many Liverpool supporters will be desperate to see him stay at Anfield due to the mercurial talent we know he possesses.

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In an interview with the Premier League’s YouTube channel, the England international was asked what else he wanted to achieve with the Reds and the answer was consistent appearances.

The 24-year-old said: “At times I feel like opportunities have been cut short when I’ve got injured and so on.

[I want] to play freely and just to help the team as best I can.”

It’s sad to hear that being the main aim, obviously it’s great that the London-born defender has won the trophies he’d desire but it’s his own body that’s stopping him achieving the career he deserves.

Let’s hope we see him with a run of games this season and not down to injuries of other people but because of his own brilliant form.

You can watch Gomez on his game time (at 1:40) via the Premier League on YouTube:

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