Liverpool will be without Diogo Jota and Joe Gomez when they play Lille at Anfield in their penultimate Champions League game of the league phase. After overloading a muscle, Jota missed the Brentford match and will again be absent this midweek.

Injuries have limited the forward to playing in just two of the Reds' European fixtures this season. A chest injury kept Jota out for seven weeks between late October and mid-December.

During that time, the Portugal international also missed six Premier League games and the League Cup fourth-round tie against Brighton and Hove Albion. Arne Slot has, though, acknowledged that Jota is, this time, expected to return in the upcoming weeks rather than missing multiple months again.

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Gomez is also on a similar timeline after missing the first five matches of this year because of the hamstring injury sustained in the 5-0 win against West Ham United. "Both of them are expected to be back with us in weeks rather than months," Slot said during his pre-match press conference after acknowledging: "Maybe Jota [will be back] a bit earlier than Joe."

However, the Reds head coach also prefaced that by saying, "It is always difficult to say exactly how long it is" because the "last stage of rehab is always the most difficult." While being without Jota and not having Gomez potentially rotate with Ibrahima Konate is not ideal for the Reds, their opponents have much greater mounting injury issues.

None of Edon Zhegrova, Matias Fernandez-Pardo, Nabil Bentaleb, Samuel Umtiti, and Tiago Santos are part of their travelling party, and former Everton midfielder Andre Gomes is also not registered to play in the Champions League. Ethan Mbappe, Kylian's younger brother, and Gabriel Gudmundsson have, though, returned to the squad ahead of this match and made the trip to Merseyside.