{"id":239499,"date":"2026-01-11T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239499\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:28:07","slug":"conor-bradley-to-miss-northern-irelands-world-cup-playoffs-and-rest-of-season-with-knee-injury-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239499\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Bradley to miss Northern Ireland\u2019s World Cup playoffs and rest of season with knee injury \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/conor-bradley\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/conor-bradley\/\">Conor Bradley<\/a> has sustained a serious knee injury and will be out for the remainder of the season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/liverpool-fc\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/liverpool-fc\/\">Liverpool<\/a> have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The right-back suffered the issue in the latter stages of Thursday night\u2019s Premier League fixture away at Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bradley will undergo surgery in the coming days and then begin a period of rehabilitation at the AXA Training Centre, the club said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">No timeframe is being placed on his return to playing at this stage of the process, but he is expected to miss the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is a significant blow to Liverpool and Northern Ireland, who play Italy in a World Cup playoff on March 26th for the chance to qualify for the tournament North America this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bradley had made 21 appearances this season for Liverpool having missed a number of matches with a hamstring problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It leaves head coach Arne Slot with Jeremie Frimpong, who has had his own injury problems since joining from Bayer Leverkusen in the summer, and Joe Gomez, himself only just returning from a hamstring issue, as cover but neither can be considered a genuine right-back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Slot has had to utilise midfielders Dominik Szoboszlai and Curtis Jones in the position this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Bradley has sustained a serious knee injury and will be out for the remainder of the season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18284,61,60,1547,43,65559],"class_list":["post-239499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-conor-bradley","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland-football-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}