Arne Slot issues injury update on Diogo Jota and Federico Chiesa before Liverpool vs Bologna

Chris DaviePublished Oct 1, 2024, 4:30pm|Updated Oct 1, 2024, 4:31pm

Arne Slot has played down the severity of Diogo Jota’s wounded but confirms Federico Chiesa volition miss Liverpool’s Champions League clash against Bologna connected Wednesday.

Liverpool big Bologna astatine Anfield successful the 2nd crippled of their Champions League run connected Wednesday evening and are looking for their 2nd triumph successful the contention aft their 3-1 triumph distant to AC Milan past month.

Ahead of the crippled against Bologna, some Jota and Chiesa did not instrumentality portion successful Tuesday’s grooming session.

But portion Slot expects the Portugal planetary to instrumentality from a sound helium suffered successful the 2-1 triumph against Wolves connected Saturday, the Liverpool manager volition beryllium without Chiesa, who suffered an wounded during grooming connected Monday.

‘Diogo missed retired connected 2 sessions aft the crippled against Wolves, helium took a knock,’ Slot said connected Tuesday astatine his pre-match property conference.

‘I’m expecting him to beryllium with america tomorrow, that he’s disposable to play.

‘Federico trained with america yesterday, came successful contiguous with immoderate problems and I’m not expecting him to beryllium successful the squad tomorrow, which is simply a pity for america but of people for him adjacent more, helium was looking guardant to a Champions League nighttime astatine Anfield, and particularly due to the fact that we are facing an Italian team.

‘It’s a pity for him but helium volition beryllium determination galore much nights to come.’

When asked however agelong helium expects Chiesa to beryllium sidelined, Slot replied: ‘Yeah, that’s ever hard due to the fact that it happened yesterday.

‘But I’m not expecting him to beryllium retired for a precise agelong play of clip but this crippled is not imaginable for him.

‘We person to hold and spot if helium tin negociate to beryllium successful the squad connected Saturday [against ] afterwards it’s the planetary break.’

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