Conte on Perisic and Doherty’s fitness

Fellow wing-back Matt Doherty (£5.0m) didn’t function in opposition to Rangers final trip however began right here and had a header tipped onto the woodwork earlier than he was flagged for offside.

He additionally took up some encouraging attacking positions, however like Perisic, nonetheless must construct up his health having solely just lately returned from a knee damage.

Doherty lasted 67 minutes earlier than he was changed by Emerson Royal (£5.0m), with new-signing Djed Spence (£4.5m) an unused substitute.

“It was the identical (as Perisic) for Matthew (Doherty). I hope to see him like final season and now he’s working and he’s struggling. We have to have persistence. We have to give time for these gamers to be actually match. On this second we have now two gamers, Perisic and Doherty, they should proceed to work and attain the height of health as a result of after a protracted damage they’re struggling so much. We have to have persistence, however at this time it was optimistic to provide them quite a lot of time to play once more for Matthew and Ivan.

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