Bradley only made 12 Premier League starts before his season was ended by a serious knee injury away to Arsenal last month. Captain Virgil van Dijk has played every minute of every Premier League game. Last weekend was just the second Premier League assignment that Wirtz has sat out. Rather than ‘days lost’, data-wise Liverpool focus more internally on ‘injury rate’, which measures injuries per 1,000 hours of match play or training. Despite the hurdles thrown in their path, Liverpool’s data shows that they remain in the top third of Premier League clubs by that metric.

Source: International New York Times February 26, 2026 16:31 UTC