Here is your Liverpool morning digest for Monday, October 17.
Jurgen Klopp gives Diogo Jota injury update
Liverpool are waiting to discover the extent of Diogo Jota's latest injury amid fears the forward may face another spell on the sidelines.
Jota collapsed to the floor holding his right leg before departing on a stretcher deep into additional time of the 1-0 Premier League win over Manchester City at Anfield on Sunday.
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The Portugal international was absent for the first six weeks of the season after suffering a recurrence of a hamstring injury in July.
And the 25-year-old will now undergo scans to ascertain the seriousness of the problem, and is already a major doubt for Wednesday’s visit of West Ham United.
“Diogo, I wish I didn’t have to talk about it,” said Klopp. “I saw it on sideline on the screen, I saw that he went down and there wasn’t a lot of contact."
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Mohamed Salah has just given Liverpool no alternative
In the exhaustive search to try and transform Liverpool's season, Jurgen Klopp might just have found it in the most simplistic way imaginable.
Any victory over Manchester City can never truly be described as comfortable, but the manner of the goal that won it at Anfield was jarringly straightforward.
There was nothing to separate England's two best sides of the last five years as the game crept into the final 15 minutes, but after a Manchester City free-kick had nestled safely into the Alisson Becker bosom, suddenly it all changed.
One long, incisive punt up-field was aimed at Mohamed Salah and in a flash the Reds were in business. Liverpool 's No.11 rolled Joao Cancelo with ease and carried the ball virtually the length of the City half unopposed before calmly slotting past Ederson. Anfield, as you might expect, erupted.
It could very well be the moment that morphs what has so far been a wretched, injury-laden, confidence-bereft campaign into something filled with hope once more.
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