Martin Kelly to miss remainder of season.

[dorgie]

Tough break for the lad, but hopefully Johnson can keep fit.

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2010/03/30/martin-kelly-to-miss-liverpool-fc-s-run-in-after-picking-up-knee-injury-100252-26135182/

 

Martin Kelly to miss Liverpool FC's run in after picking up knee injury

Mar 30 2010 by Dominic King, Liverpool Echo

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Martin Kelly

 

Buy Photo MARTIN KELLY has suffered another crushing disappointment after he picked up an injury which will end his season.

 

Liverpool’s young right-back was ruled out of the squad that beat Sunderland 3-0 on Sunday after he tore his meniscus knee ligament in training 24 hours before that contest.

 

Fernando Torres suffered a similar problem in January, which required surgery and six weeks on the sidelines to fix and, as that will be the case again, Kelly’s campaign is over.

 

It is a huge blow for the 19-year-old, who is held in high regard at Anfield and has made encouraging progress in recent months.

 

Kelly was man-of-the-match when he made his debut in the Champions League against Lyon at Anfield last October and would have figured even more but for picking up an ankle problem in that game.

 

He returned to first team action when coming on as a substitute in the Europa League victory over Unirea Urziceni and then made his Premier League debut from the bench against Portsmouth but all plans for him are on hold now after this fresh setback.

 

One defender who knows all about injury frustrations is Daniel Agger but he showed his well being during Sunday’s demolition of Sunderland with an imperious display.

 

But rather than worry about his form, the Denmark international was eager to talk about what kind of impact the style in which victory was achieved can have on Liverpool’s season.

 

League, Agger feels they are coming in to form at just the right time.

 

To get into the top four, however, Liverpool’s form on their travels is going to have to dramatically improve but Agger hopes a good result against Benfica on Thursday evening can tee them up for the trip to Birmingham on Easter Sunday.

 

“The quick goal helped but it was very pleasing,” he reflected. “It was great to see Fernando (Torres) play so well. If you want to compete in the Premier League, you need players like that.

 

“We needed a performance like that to help us on the run-in. We played for everyone and we wanted to win to get back up the table and it was a good result.

 

“A clean sheet always helps and now we have to keep believing. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t but I actually thought after a good first half we dropped a bit in the second.

 

“We have lost some games but that is in the past now. We have got to look forward and do our best in the last few weeks.”

 

With better fortune, Agger might have opened his account for the season but he shrugged aside a hat-trick of misses by insisting Liverpool’s all-round performance was a handsome compensation.

 

“Maybe I should have hit the target but 3-0 was good enough,” said Agger.

 

“We definitely played better than we have done for a long time.”

[D.Boon]

Tough for the kid, but realistically i doubt we would have seen him this season anyway bar an injury to Jonson

[Earl Hafler]

This is now beyond ridiculous.

[Jarg Armani]

s***. Hope his injuries clear up after this, he's missing a lot of footy at a vital time and looks so so promising.

[Kirb]

Poor kid has had no luck with injuries. Hope he is fit for pre season and can push for a place in the squad again.

[Superjay]

Had LFC.tv blaring while in the shower last night and thought I'd heard John McMahon say that Fransico Duran was injured again...... Did I hear right?

[Maldini]

Yeah, don't think it's anything serious, just a knock on the ankle

[Superjay]

Nice one..... He's looked pretty good. Liking the look of him, Palsson & Kakaniclic. We've deffo got some good footballers in there, just have to get the fingers crossed that some have the wherewithall to make the step up.

[Maldini]

Nice one..... He's looked pretty good. Liking the look of him, Palsson & Kakaniclic. We've deffo got some good footballers in there, just have to get the fingers crossed that some have the wherewithall to make the step up.

 

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if a few head off to Genk next season now that we have that link up. A bit of regular competitive football would do most of them the world of good. The likes of Palsson, Amoo, Kacaniklic are probably a year away from getting near the first team so a year away would do them more good than the sporadic football they'd get here.

[Superjay]

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if a few head off to Genk next season now that we have that link up. A bit of regular competitive football would do most of them the world of good. The likes of Palsson, Amoo, Kacaniklic are probably a year away from getting near the first team so a year away would do them more good than the sporadic football they'd get here.

 

 

Strange that Spearing & Darby didn't go there? In fact we haven't as yet sent anyone have we? Maybe we'll start to see it in the summer.