Diogo Jota is absent from training ahead of Liverpool’s Champions League clash against RB Leipzig.
The Reds striker was forced off with a suspected rub injury in Sunday’s 2-1 win over Chelsea. After the win, head coach Arne Slot admitted that Jota was unlikely to be available for the Leipzig encounter. And that appears correct, with the Portugal international not present at the AXA Training Centre before Liverpool will jet off to Germany later today. It appears that he could also be in a race against time for the seismic encounter against Arsenal in the Premier League on Sunday.
Jota was one of five players who could not be spotted in the open session before Leipzig. Alisson Becker is sidelined with a long-term hamstring injury while Harvey Elliott is continuing his recovery from a fractured foot.
It appears that Federico Chiesa is set to miss a fourth successive game. The summer signing from Juventus suffered a setback before Liverpool’s win over Bologna three weeks ago and was not sighted. In addition, Conor Bradley arrived back from captaining Northern Ireland with an issue and was a surprise omission against Chelsea. The right-back was another seemingly not involved pre-Leipzig.