Liverpool head coach Arne Slot fears that attacker Diogo Jota will miss Wednesday’s Champions League trip to RB Leipzig due to injury.
The Portugal international, 27, limped off during the first half of Sunday’s 2-1 Premier League victory over Chelsea at Anfield.
Darwin Nunez replaced him and the Uruguayan is now expected to lead the line against the Bundesliga outfit.
“Diogo had to be substituted and I am not sure what it is, but I’d be surprised if he is there on Wednesday,” Slot said.
“I have a lot of confidence in this team, but you also saw today — after the international break — that we have some problems.
“Conor Bradley is not in, Trent (Alexander-Arnold) was also not training in the first days after he came back (from England duty) so he was a bit of a doubt, and then we had Macca (Alexis Mac Allister) being sick.”
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Slot was full of praise for midfielder Curtis Jones, who scored the goal which took Liverpool back to the top of the Premier League. Nicolas Jackson had earlier cancelled out Mohamed Salah’s penalty.
“Curtis had a very good game,” he added.
“He had a difficult job to control Cole Palmer, who is an incredible player with so many qualities. Curtis controlled him for most parts of the game and he had big impact at the other end with the goal and the two penalties, one of which was disallowed by the VAR.”
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