Arne Slot confirms Liverpool return for Diogo Jota. (Photograph by Michael Regan/Getty Photographs)
Liverpool are anticipated to obtain an enormous enhance after the worldwide break as Arne Slot has confirmed that Diogo Jota is near returning to motion for the Reds.
The Portuguese ahead impressed the brand new Liverpool boss throughout pre-season and that led to the 27-year-old being handed the quantity 9 function for the Merseyside membership’s first recreation of the season towards Ipswich City.
Jota rewarded his supervisor’s religion at Portman Highway because the ahead scored, which might see the previous Wolves star turn into Slot’s beginning striker all through the opening section of the 2024/25 marketing campaign.
The Portugal worldwide has produced two targets and two assists throughout seven Premier League video games this time period, including two extra strikes in all competitions; nonetheless, Liverpool have been with out the ahead for his or her final 5 matches.
Throughout the Reds’ 2-1 win over Chelsea at Anfield final month, Jota suffered an harm setback, which is at all times a fear given the participant’s health historical past.
The 27-year-old was anticipated again as soon as the upcoming worldwide break had concluded however Slot advised the press on Friday morning that the Portuguese star’s return will now be “the primary weeks after the worldwide break.”
“We anticipate him again after the worldwide break… the primary weeks after the worldwide break we anticipate him again,” the Dutch coach stated by way of Liverpool.com. “I at all times say in Holland there’s privateness about this and I don’t understand how it’s over right here. Like I simply stated, he shall be again one or two weeks after the worldwide break.”
Diogo Jota in motion for Liverpool. (Photograph by Alex Pantling/Getty Photographs)
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Do Liverpool miss Diogo Jota?
Though Jota’s return from harm has been pushed again, it’s a enhance for Liverpool understanding that they may have the ahead obtainable for choice by the top of November.
In his absence, Slot’s males have been doing incredible with out the Portuguese star as they’ve gained all however one in all their 5 video games. Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz and Cody Gakpo have all stepped up for the Reds, making enormous contributions throughout these video games – the spotlight being the Colombian’s hat-trick towards Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday.
The return of a participant with the standard of Jota will at all times be a lift for any staff however in his absence, Liverpool have proven that they’re able to deal with one in all their frontmen being injured because the Premier League giants are blessed with some excellent choices of their ahead areas.