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Sterling row boils over

Source: AFP | October 15, 2014, Wednesday | Print Edition

LIVERPOOL has defended the club’s approach to player recovery following disagreements between manager Brendan Rodgers and England head coach Roy Hodgson.

Hodgson has queried Rodgers’s claim that speedy players such as Liverpool pair Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling require two days to fully recover after matches.

Hodgson claims there is little “medical evidence” to support the strategy.

“With England there has been a lot of discussion recently. We don’t really change,” Liverpool first-team coach Mike Marsh told the Liverpool website.

“Our fitness programs have been well documented. We try to recover the players as best we can to prepare for the games. We have a couple of days’ recovery after the game and we work with the group that don’t start (the previous match) and we build up to the next game, and once one game finishes, we try to recover as soon as possible. We try different ways. We do quite a lot of analysis with the players, so we break them up into smaller groups and get players’ feedback in different ways.”

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