Liverpool breezed past Brentford at the weekend but their 17th Premier League win of the campaign came at the cost of injuries to Diogo Jota, Curtis Jones and probably Mo Salah.
Jota was hurt in the first half of the game during a tussle with a Bees man Christian Norgaard and he had to be taken off in the 44th minute following which the forward left the stadium with a knee brace.
Jota was replaced by Mo Salah who scored and assisted two goals during the second half but if journalist Ahmed Shoubir is to be believed then the Egyptian might have aggravated his hamstring injury.
Speaking to Egyptian TV station OnTimeSports(h/t Kora Plus) on X: ‘I learned that Mohamed Salah’s injury, which he suffered with the Egyptian national team, was renewed at the end of the Liverpool-Brentford match, and he will not be able to play the next match against Luton Town’.
Curtis Jones was the third player who injured himself during the 4-1 win and he too is at risk of missing the trip to Wembley next weekend.
Will Mo Salah, Diogo Jota and Jones all miss the Carabao Cup final?
Initially, everyone thought Jota had sustained a major cruciate ligament damage but the latest updates are claiming that the injury is not so serious and he could be out for around two months only.
Further details are still to arrive but there’s no way he is going to be fit to play against Chelsea next weekend.
The injury to Mo Salah is still not verified from too many sources and we will only know more about it when Klopp does his pre-match press conference for the midweek tie against Luton Town.
Mo Salah picked up a hamstring injury during the AFCON due to which he has missed almost a month of football and if has really aggravated that problem then it will be a big setback.
Jones will definitely not be risked for the Luton game and he also remains a major doubt for the Chelsea game.
How will Klopp replace all three of them?
Firstly, Jota’s a sure miss and if Mo Salah also cannot make it then Harvey Elliott will most probably come into the side and slot into the right wing.
Cody Gakpo is another option but the forward is not a natural right-sided attacker plus he’s started only 10 Premier League games this season. If Gakpo comes into the starting XI then Darwin Nunez will have to move out wide and the kind of form that the South American is in right now, Klopp will not want to take him out of the central role.
Dominik Szoboszlai is out and he will be touch and go for the Carabao Cup final so if Curtis Jones cannot recover in time then Ryan Gravenberch will slot in alongside Endo and Mac Allister.
