Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez make long-awaited injury returns for Liverpool in pre-season defeat to Hertha Berlin

Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez made their long-awaited returns in Liverpool’s 4-3 defeat to Hertha Berlin on Thursday. Both defenders, who suffered serious knee injuries last season, replaced Rhys Williams and Nat Phillips in the 69th minute of the pre-season friendly. Van Dijk had been sidelined since tearing his anterior cruciate ligament last October, […]