{"id":135208,"date":"2023-12-28T09:38:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T09:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/28\/jurgen-klopp-admits-taking-risk-with-diogo-jota-return-in-burnley-win\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T09:38:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T09:38:56","slug":"jurgen-klopp-admits-taking-risk-with-diogo-jota-return-in-burnley-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/28\/jurgen-klopp-admits-taking-risk-with-diogo-jota-return-in-burnley-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurgen Klopp admits taking risk with Diogo Jota return in Burnley win \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jurgen Klopp has admitted he had to defy Liverpool\u2019s medical staff to bring Diogo Jota back into his squad for Tuesday\u2019s 2-0 win over Burnley.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jota had missed over a month with a muscle injury and had trained just twice before being named on the Liverpool bench at Turf Moor. He made the most of his return by coming on late and scoring just minutes later to ease the pressure on his side and\u00a0secure all three points.<\/p>\n

After the game, Klopp confessed he took a risk with Jota\u2019s fitness after\u00a0Liverpool\u2018s medical department insisted the forward was not ready to return yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sneaked him in somehow on the squad list because he trained only twice and the medical department wanted to give him extra training and I said he can have that in Burnley,\u201d Klopp revealed after the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had that tonight and now he can train tomorrow properly and then he will be ready for Newcastle [on Monday], which is really helpful. 2-0, no injuries, all good.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Klopp embraced Jota after the goal \/ Jan Kruger\/GettyImages<\/p>\n

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Darwin Nunez struck early in the game to put Liverpool ahead before both Cody Gakpo and Harvey Elliott saw goals controversially ruled out for a foul and offside respectively, and Burnley were growing into the game by the time Jota popped up to save the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Diogo Jota but he missed chances in the past as well,\u201d Klopp said. \u201cHe had some fortune like that. It\u2019s the nature of the thing that we always ask for, always the players who are not involved and then all of a sudden they think they can change the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cDiogo is an incredibly important player for us. Having him changed the whole dynamic, that\u2019s true, but before in his life he missed some chances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal he scored today is the goal of a boy full of conviction. Good technique, obviously, but full of conviction because he had no chance to create any kind of doubt in the last few weeks because he was in rehab. That\u2019s why the goal for Darwin was as important. Cody scored again, Harvey scored an incredible goal, they just took them away and it\u2019s really, really tough, but how I said, we won the game and it\u2019s all fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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