Conor Bradley suffers injury setback, set for lengthy spell on sidelines
Liverpool full-back Conor Bradley has picked up an injury, Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill confirms. The 20-year-old will be sidelined for at least three months.
“Those are injuries that sometimes occur in young players,” O’Neill told the Belfast Telegraph.
“He is coming off the back of playing a lot of games last season. With that type of injury you have to be very careful particularly with a young player so we have to be patient.
“I think he had a four-week rest period and he is now back at Liverpool. He has started his rehab and I have kept in touch with him.”
O'Neill added that he “hopes [Bradley] would be back” for the national team's games in November, he “wouldn’t want to commit too much to that.”
Bradley appeared in Liverpool's first games in the pre-season but was omitted from the squad for the East Asia tour with a stress fracture, which was described as a 'minor' injury at that time.
