Diogo Jota Set To Miss Two Months After Knee Injury

This comes as a major blow to the Reds.

Live your life like Eeyore. If you always assume the worst, then
anything better than that will feel like a gift.

What we were told was a ‘knock’ potentially keeping Diogo Jota
out of the game against Fulham has been revealed to be much worse.
Earlier today, Liverpool sources confirmed that Jota sustained a
knee injury that would be reassessed after the Fulham game.

Now, though, reports in Jota’s home country of Portugal have
come out and said that the player may be set to miss the next two
months. This would obviously be a huge blow for the club. Their
injury problems this season are well-documented, so any player
going down during the festive period would be frustr ating.
However, in addition to that, Jota has also been one of Liverpool’s
best players this season.

He’s begun to slowly carve a place for himself in the starting
lineup, which is a very touch ask when his competition is Sadio
Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah, and when that trio has
combined to be the best attacking threat in Europe for nearly four
seasons now.

The club hasn’t yet confirmed the news, so there’s some small
hope that the situation has been overblown.

If the whispers are true, though, then Jota is set to miss 11
league games, including two against Spurs and one against each of
the Manchester clubs, not to mention the Champions
League round of 16 and the next stage of the FA Cup.

As we stare at the growing list of the injured, several of whom
have no return in sight, I’m reminded again of my buddy Eeyore, who
once said: “Days. Weeks. Months. Who knows?”