Liverpool loan star suffers fresh injury blow as manager left 'bitterly disappointed'

Liverpool prima Ben Doak has been ruled retired for a fig of weeks during his indebtedness astatine Middlesbrough, wherever helium has impressed nether the absorption of Manchester United icon Michael Carrick

Liverpool prima Ben Doak volition beryllium ruled retired for a fig of weeks aft suffering a thigh wounded connected indebtedness astatine Middlesbrough.

Doak has enjoyed a stellar play astatine the Riverside, scoring 3 goals and notching 7 assists successful the Championship. That has enactment Michael Carrick's broadside connected the cusp of the play-offs successful the 2nd tier.

But helium was a astonishment lack from Monday's decision to Sunderland, which near them 14 points down the Black Cats. Boss Carrick has present seen his broadside win conscionable 2 of their past 9 games.

And successful a further stroke for the Manchester United legend, helium has confirmed that Doak volition miss the upcoming spell of games. The Scot suffered his wounded during grooming and has been sidelined.

"He conscionable felt his thigh during the week successful training," said Carrick. "We'll spot however it is. It won't beryllium a fewer days, it volition beryllium longer. Probably weeks, not ages but yeah, it won't beryllium days."

Boro question to Championship leaders Sheffield United a week connected Wednesday earlier games against rivals Watford and Bristol City. It is chartless however galore of those games Doak volition miss.

It could good person been worse for Middlesbrough, with Liverpool turning down bids from Crystal Palace and Ipswich Town to bargain him permanently successful the January transportation window. The Reds are alternatively blessed for him to stay with Carrick's broadside for the remainder of the season.

Without Doak, Boro slipped to a disappointing decision to Sunderland. They had led aboriginal connected earlier the Black Cats turned the crippled connected its head, with the visitors claiming each 3 points acknowledgment to a precocious own-goal, leaving Carrick downhearted.

"To suffer it similar that is simply a pugnacious one. It's a horrible mode to suffer a game, particularly a crippled of this significance. To suffer the game, to concede the goals, a deflection and an own-goal is hard but we person to judge it," helium said.

"We started the crippled ever truthful well, went up and looked similar we could adhd to it. We dealt with the two-goal plaything and came backmost into the crippled and it conscionable drifted a spot successful the 2nd fractional erstwhile we didn't bash capable successful the game.

"To suffer it similar that is simply a pugnacious 1 to take. Football is ups and downs done a crippled and determination volition beryllium times erstwhile you person the momentum and the precocious manus and you person to marque the astir of that.

"You can't ever expect to people much than 2 goals astatine home, to beryllium honest. But the 2 goals we conceded, a deflection and an own-goal, you tin prime the bones retired of it but it's harsh, and we find ourselves present with nothing. It's a bitterly disappointed dressing room."

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