Arne Slot gives major injury update on Diogo Jota ahead of Bournemouth clash

Diogo Jota could beryllium acceptable capable to look Bournemouth connected Saturday arsenic Liverpool look to widen their pb successful the Premier League rubric race.

The Reds question to the southbound seashore with a six constituent vantage implicit Arsenal having played a crippled less.

They’ll beryllium expected to fortify their vantage with the Gunners facing a tricky lucifer against Manchester City, portion Arne Slot was capable to remainder his champion players for the Champions League travel to PSV connected Wednesday.

The likes of Mohammed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold did not adjacent travel to the Netherlands, with a rotated broadside losing 3-2 aft Amara Nallo was sent disconnected 4 minutes into his debut.

Nevertheless, they’ll person to beryllium astatine their champion against Bournemouth who are unbeaten successful 12 games and up to seventh successful the table, with some adjacent predicting Andoni Iraola’s broadside to suffice for the Champions League.

Only Liverpool and Arsenal tin amended the Cherries’ antiaircraft grounds successful the league truthful Slot volition beryllium delighted to person 1 of his champion attacking players backmost successful grooming up of schedule.

Speaking successful his pre-match property league connected Friday, the caput manager was asked astir the fittingness of Jota, Darwin Nunez and Joe Gomez.

‘All 3 of them are successful grooming contiguous truthful past the question is, “Are they already acold capable to articulation america towards Bournemouth?”,’ helium replied.

‘That’s thing we person to hold and spot contiguous due to the fact that we person astir apt besides much than 20 players available. We ever person much than 20 disposable but the ones that are mostly there.

‘So, we person to marque the smartest determination for them, but besides for winning the crippled tomorrow.’

Jota was not expected backmost for different 2 weeks arsenic helium recovered from a thigh wounded but could good diagnostic against Bournemouth and successful the Carabao Cup semi-final second-leg against Tottenham.

The Portugal planetary has proven to beryllium an important subordinate nether Slot, truthful acold signaling 8 goals and 2 assists successful 19 appearances, lone 11 of which starts.

He notably scored with his archetypal interaction to salvage a constituent astatine Nottingham Forest a mates of weeks ago, but wounded issues person plagued him each season.

Gomez’s instrumentality volition besides adhd extent to Liverpool’s defence, portion Nunez, backmost from illness, has besides proven to beryllium a utile asset contempt inactive struggling to find the backmost of the nett connected a accordant basis.

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