Owen Beck will be returning to Liverpool for treatment after sustaining an injury while on loan at Dundee.
The left-back has thrived at the Scottish club this season, recording two goals and four assists in 29 appearances.
Beck briefly returned in January to cover for injured Andy Robertson and Kostas Tsimikas. The defender made his Premier League debut as a substitute in a 4-0 victory against Bournemouth.
He subsequently rejoined Dundee before the transfer window closed. However, Beck was forced to miss last week’s 1-0 win over Aberdeen after feeling discomfort in both of his groins.
The Dark Blues’ clash against Rangers at the weekend was postponed because of a waterlogged Dens Park pitch, although the defender was set to be absent.
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Beck’s absence, confirmed to last 4-6 weeks, rules him out of Wales under-21s duty and a significant portion of the remaining season.
“Owen is looking at a minimum of four to six weeks on the sidelines”
Dundee boss Tony Docherty told The Courier,
“We have been monitoring and managing the situation with his groin and he’ll now go for a scan on it. With Liverpool being his parent club they have a big input into that and, of course, he’ll get the best of treatment.
“He will go down there for that, certainly for this period because he’s their player and they want to look at it themselves.”
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Speaking after Beck came back to Liverpool in January, manager Jurgen Klopp said,
“We were always pretty positive about Owen, but then he had two really difficult loan spells at Famalicao and Bolton Wanderers last season.
“It was a surprise that it didn’t work out because of what we thought about Owen, but that’s how it is with young boys. When you send them away from home, plenty of things can happen.
“Things always have to fit well – it must be the right manager, must be the right team, if they have another left-back there who is experienced.
There are so many things which can make a loan spell not happen but at Dundee everything was fine and he made big steps.
“Now the situation here is clear. We lost two of our left-backs so it makes a sense to bring back a boy we like who is available to us.”
