Gerrard likely to miss four

Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard is facing a lay-off of up to four weeks after injuring a hamstring in England’s friendly with France.

Gerrard limped off with just six minutes remaining in England’s 2-1 loss on Wednesday, and is due to have a scan on the injury on Thursday.

The club were angry the national squad reneged on an agreement that would have seen the 30-year-old play just an hour in the friendly fixture, but an injury to Gareth Barry meant Gerrard had to stay on the pitch.

Liverpool club doctor Peter Brukner described the injury as ‘significant’, but said more would be known after the scan.

“Steven injured his hamstring last night. He’s just been in for an early assessment here and it certainly looks like a significant hamstring injury,” Brukner told liverpoolfc.tv.

“He’s just heading off for a scan as we speak and we should have the results of that tonight.”

“He’s going to be out for a little while, I’m afraid. I’d imagine it could be three to four weeks.”

Despite the agreement Gerrard would only play for an hour on Wednesday, Brukner defended England’s use of the Liverpool captain.

“If you put your hand up to play for your country, you’ve got to accept how long they want you to play for,” the doctor said.

“There were obviously circumstances last night which came together to result in Steven playing for a bit longer than we’d hoped, which is disappointing, but there’s nothing we can do about that now.”

“We’ll move on and work as hard as we can to get him back playing for Liverpool as soon as possible.”