{"id":284027,"date":"2026-01-14T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/284027\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:40:07","slug":"the-comeback-starts-now-says-liverpools-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/284027\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The comeback starts now&#8217;, says Liverpool&#8217;s Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool defender Conor Bradley is fully focused on his rehabilitation after undergoing surgery on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0111\/1552523-bradley-ruled-out-for-season-with-knee-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">season-ending knee injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Ireland international, 22, was carried off in closing stages of the Reds&#8217; goalless draw at Premier League leaders Arsenal last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He faces a race to recover in time for this summer\u2019s World Cup, should his country qualify through the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A big blow but surgery is done so the comeback starts now,&#8221; Bradley posted on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It won\u2019t be for a little while but I already can\u2019t wait to get back playing for Liverpool and Northern Ireland. Thanks for all the support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tpe\" data-embed=\"instagram\" data-id=\"DTfMI-rjCCR\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0108\/1552219-arteta-defends-martinelli-after-bradley-flashpoint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arsenal forward Gabriel Martinelli apologised<\/a> for throwing the ball at Bradley and then attempting to push him off the pitch as he lay injured on the turf at Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The right-back, who has 30 caps for Northern Ireland, has made 21 Liverpool appearances this season, having missed a number of matches with a hamstring problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool defender Conor Bradley is fully focused on his rehabilitation after undergoing surgery on a season-ending knee injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-284027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115893975371400422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}