Diogo Jota and Curtis Jones were both substituted off during Liverpool’s horrific Saturday match against Brentford, adding to the team’s already dire injury situation.

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Consequently, what happened?

Jones played for just more than thirty minutes before he landed awkwardly, and Ryan Gravenberch was substituted. After that, Jota played a crucial role in setting up Darwin Nunez for a spectacular finish that gave Liverpool a 1-0 lead. However, he was crunched minutes later by Christian Norgaard of Brentford and teammate Alexis Mac Allister, and he remained down due to a knee injury that was concerning. At the Gtech Community Stadium, Salah made an unexpected early debut and had to be helped off. The forward for Liverpool was called off.

THE LARGER IMAGE

For Jurgen Klopp, the twin injury is a crushing blow. Liverpool probably intended not to reintroduce Salah so early on Saturday as they are already without Dominik Szoboszlai, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Alisson, and Thiago Alcantara, among other players. Given that Jota’s knock appeared to be particularly serious, Klopp now has to wait anxiously to find out how he is doing as he faces an injury problem at the worst possible time of the season.

HOW DID KLOPP COMMENT AFTER THE GAME?

After Liverpool defeated Brentford 4-1, Klopp addressed the injuries at half time, stating, “Mixed emotions because we lost players, which we don’t know how serious they are.” It appears that neither Jota nor Jones will fare well.

DID YOU KNOW?

Jota has already missed eight games for Liverpool this season due to a muscular injury, missing a month of play before making a comeback in late December. Later, camera footage from the Gtech Community Stadium’s tunnel area saw the Portuguese player wobbling and seemed to be in trouble when walking—a major injury would be disastrous for the Reds.

WHAT NEXT FOR LIVERPOOL?

In less than a week, Klopp’s team will play Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final, and he is losing players quickly. At the half of Saturday’s game against the Bees, Nunez was also hooked. The Reds manager later acknowledged that he was “not sure” how serious his injury problem was and that he had taken him out of the game out of caution.