Diogo Jota injury: Progress and potential return date

• Diogo Jota has suffered with injuries through the 2024/25 campaign
• Portuguese forward hasn’t started any Premier League game since October
• Jota set to miss out on several upcoming matches through injury

For all his ruthless finishing, instinctive positioning and tireless pressing, injuries have been one of the prevailing themes of Diogo Jota’s Liverpool career.

The potent Portuguese forward has สมัคร ufabet กับเรา รับโบนัสทันที missed some lengthy spells since trading Molineux for Anfield at the beginning of the 2020/21 campaign, with his second season at Liverpool the only one in which he hasn’t suffered a serious and long-term injury.

Jota has already spent a significant spell on the sidelines this term, missing 12 matches for the Reds with an issue sustained in October. The last time he started a Premier League match. He’s been eased back into the squad over recent weeks having made a full recovery. But his latest setback is another worry.

What injury does Diogo Jota have?

Jota has proven his worth on several occasions since returning from the treatment room. Often making an immediate impact from the bench. That’s exactly what he did last Tuesday during Liverpool’s top of the table clash with Nottingham Forest, netting a header within 22 seconds of entering the fray.

The Portugal international could have finished up with a hat-trick had it not for the impressive reflexes of Matz Sels, with the 28-year-old transforming Liverpool’s fortunes from the bench. Only Mohamed Salah finished the match with more shots than Jota’s four, despite the fact that the former Wolverhampton Wanderers forward only arrived in the 65th minute.

When will Diogo Jota return from injury?

Slot hasn’t gone into great detail on the nature of Jota’s issue. Beyond a muscle overload, but it was enough to rule the player out of the weekend clash with Brentford.

Speaking ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League meeting with Lille, the boss put a timeframe of weeks rather than months on the recovery.

“Maybe Jota [will be back] a bit earlier than Joe [Gomez]. Both of them are expected to be back with us in weeks rather than months,” Slot explained.