Injury, Portugal's Gota is two months away from Liverpool

Liverpool coach Juergen Klopp said today, Sunday, that Portuguese Diogo Jota will miss the red team for two months due to a knee injury.

Jota, who has been one of the prominent Liverpool players since his move from Wolverhampton in England last summer, was injured in the team's match against his Danish host Metjeland on Wednesday in the Champions League.

Klopp said, "The injury was worse than we thought in the beginning and better than we thought afterwards."

Klopp added, "Jota was examined by all potential surgeons, and there was no need for surgery, but he will be absent for a while. We don't know exactly if it was for a month and a half, or two months. We don't know exactly."

Jota, who scored nine goals for Liverpool in various competitions this season, joined the team's injured list, which includes Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez, Thiago Alcantara, James Milner and Naby Keita.

There was some good news for Liverpool, with Brazilian goalkeeper Allison Baker returning to the starting line-up to face Fulham at home later in the day.

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