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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Liverpool's injury crisis | Expert's view | Former Reds' Physio Dave Galley on van Dijk & knee injury recovery

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Injuries have played a crucial part in Liverpool's 2020/21 campaign with Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Diogo Jota just three of Jurgen Klopp's stars to have spent sufficient amounts of time on the sidelines. To get an insight and understanding into the mechanics of knee injuries, recovery and how long it can take to get back to their best Guy Clarke has spoken with former Liverpool Head Physio Dave Galley. Now with Plymouth Argyle Galley shares his knowledge of what goes into rehab for players with long-term injuries as well as an insight to working within the Covid-19 restrictions and plenty more. Enjoy.Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCJoin our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

0:08.0

Welcome to the Blood Red channel. I'm Guy Clark and welcome along Virgil Van Dyke Joe Gomez

0:14.0

Diogo Jutter the list goes on injuries have been a key subplot to

0:18.4

Liverpool's 20-21 campaign so with that in mind we're here with an expert with insight and

0:24.8

opinion to rule and I over Liverpool's treatment room and who better to do that

0:29.2

with than a man who's held the position of head physio at Liverpool

0:33.2

Dave Gally's been in exactly that position

0:36.4

Dave thanks for coming back on to the blood red podcast to have a chat with us

0:40.3

hope you're keeping well

0:42.1

yeah very well thanks. Yeah, everything's going well apart

0:45.8

from the COVID issues, but everybody's in the same boat with that which doesn't help, but

0:50.8

everything else very good, thank you. I know you're down at Plymouth these days and we caught up I think sort of

0:55.9

during that first lockdown league one and two hadn't resumed by then but you guys back underway

1:01.0

so I suppose it's it's all sort of different protocols and everything for you to deal with.

1:06.4

Yeah very different it's been a strange season. It's very short and season but very very long with everything that's going on.

1:14.0

But yeah, we can't use gyms, we can't use the changing rooms,

1:18.0

we can't have food inside the buildings,

1:20.4

so it's all take away food. Training regimes have had to change.

1:25.0

It's all very, very strange and for me it's no surprise that we've got a bigger injury list than normal.

1:33.7

Not here, I touch wood, we're very lucky.

1:36.4

But I think through football in general,

1:38.3

through all the leagues, I think they've noticed

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