Portuguese international striker Diogo Jota has a hamstring injury and will miss the FA Super Cup match against Manchester City on Saturday, Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp revealed on Thursday.
The 25-year-old winger did not travel with the “reds” for an internship in Austria this week, to have stayed in Liverpool to recoverhis absence in the Community Shield scheduled for Saturday in Leicester being certain.
“Diego [Jota] he’s not here with us, so how could he play a football game? it will take a while [para regressar]unfortunately“, communicated the German coach.
The first trophy of the 2022/23 season at stake”It’s very important“Mainly because Liverpool haven’t won it with Klopp yet.
“We played this ‘final’ several times and it would be nice if we could win. It’s the last domestic cup we haven’t won yet, so we’re going to try,” he said.
Apart from Jota, the Merseyside side will be without goalkeeper Alisson Becker against the “the citizens“, since he is recovering from an injury.
The match between Liverpool and the British champion Manchester City, in which the Portuguese Rúben Dias, João Cancelo and Bernardo Dias participate, begins at 5:00 p.m., at the King Power Stadium, in Leicester.
Source: Observadora
