It’s dangerous information on Diogo Jota‘s knee harm as anticipated, however experiences in Portugal have dominated out the “worst-case state of affairs” of his season being over.
Jota joined Liverpool’s rising harm listing when Brentford captain Christian Norgaard landed on his knee after aerial problem in Saturday’s 4-1 victory.
The striker’s knee bent awkwardly, and after receiving remedy from membership physician Jonathan Energy, he was stretchered off the pitch.
Early indicators urged Liverpool may have escaped a serious blow, as Jota walked freely to the remedy room on the Gtech Group Stadium – however Jurgen Klopp was downcast after full-time.
Preliminary scans occurred on Sunday and, in keeping with Portuguese newspaper Document, Jota has suffered cruciate ligament injury as anticipated.
It’s claimed that the 27-year-old may miss “round two months” of motion, with the world of his harm more likely to be posterior (PCL) quite than anterior (ACL).
Jota will endure additional scans on Monday, however the “worst-case state of affairs is excluded,” with the participant anticipated to be match once more earlier than the top of the season.
A two-month layoff would rule the No. 20 out till mid-April, lacking round eight Premier League video games, the Carabao Cup remaining, the FA Cup fifth spherical and a possible quarter-final, plus the Europa League final 16.
That would come with conferences with Man Metropolis (March 10), Everton (March 17) and Man United (April 6), and will see his return land between legs within the Europa League quarter-finals.
Whereas it stays irritating information, the optimistic is that Jota must be again earlier than the top of the season, which may present a lift throughout the run-in.
If he goals to be again for the league journey to Fulham on April 20, for instance, he may very well be accessible for the ultimate 5 video games of the home marketing campaign.
However, dropping a participant who had simply been named the Premier League‘s Participant of the Month, and had scored six objectives and assisted 4 within the final 11 video games, is an actual setback.
In Jota’s absence, Jurgen Klopp will depend on Mohamed Salah, Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz and Cody Gakpo as his senior forwards.
There stay doubts over the short-term health of Nunez, nevertheless, whereas Salah probably performed greater than the membership’s medical employees had hoped when changing Jota earlier than half-time at Brentford.
Younger winger Ben Doak is at present out with an MCL harm, and This Is Anfield understands he himself is hoping to return in April.
Kaide Gordon, 19, scored his first aim since January 2022 when he transformed his spot-kick in Liverpool U21s’ 2-1 win over Newcastle on Saturday.
