Liverpool may see their attacking department depleted against Nottingham Forest next weekend after Diogo Jota was carried off on a stretcher against Manchester City at Anfield.
The former Wolverhampton Wanderers forward started against the reigning Premier League champions but was carried off after collapsing onto the pitch, with the issue appearing to be with the player's right leg after overstretching it. Jota was sidelined for the first six weeks of the season after a recurrence of a hamstring injury during the summer.
Liverpool travel to face Forest for the Saturday lunchtime kick-off this weekend and are also in action against West Ham United on Wednesday night, for which the Portugal international must be considered a major doubt. While the Merseyside club now must wait to discover the extent of the issue, with Jota set to undergo scans to ascertain the seriousness of the problem.
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Manager Jurgen Klopp was asked about the stricken player's status in the post-match press conference and offered an update on the situation. “Diogo, I wish I didn’t have to talk about it,” Klopp told the Liverpool Echo .
“I saw it on the sideline, on the screen, I saw that he went down, and there wasn’t a lot of contact. You can see a little bit that someone kicks his foot, and maybe the muscle got a little bit overstretched. After 96 minutes, that’s not good for a muscle, and he felt it immediately, and now we have to wait to find out how bad it is.”
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