Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson fears Dirk Kuyt could be sidelined with a shoulder injury for longer than the initial four-week period suggested by the Dutch midfielder.
Kuyt returned to Merseyside on Tuesday after injuring his shoulder while attempting a scissor-kick in training prior to Holland’s euro 2012 clash against Finland.
Although the 30 year-old insisted that he will be back in time to face former club Utrecht in the Europa League on Sept 30, Hodgson admits he is pessimistic over Kuyt’s prospects of returning within a month.
He said: “It could be more than four weeks. It’s one of those injuries where it’s very difficult for the doctor to say and I think four weeks is a very conservative estimate.
“We have to be very careful because it’s the type of injury that has to be treated with a lot of respect.
“It would have been bad enough to happen playing for the national team in a competitive match, but for it to happen in training was even more of a blow.”
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