Liverpool striker Diogo Jota will miss "between six and eight weeks" with a knee injury, according to manager Jurgen Klopp.
Jota was injured during the 1-1 draw at Midtjylland in the Champions League on Wednesday.
The Portugal international, 24, has scored nine goals in 17 appearances since his £41m move from Wolves in October.
“Yeah, it’s worse than we first thought and better than we then thought,” Reds manager Jurgen Klopp told Sky Sports.
“All the potential surgeons had a look on it, no surgery needed. But he will be out for a while. We don’t know exactly but one-and-a-half, two months. We don’t know exactly.”
It continues a terrible campaign for the Premier League champions in terms of injuries, with centre-backs Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez currently out for what is expected to be the remainder of the season.
A whole host of other Liverpool players have endured heavily disrupted campaigns, including Trent Alexander-Arnold, Jordan Henderson, Thiago Alcantara and goalkeeper Alisson.
“It’s pretty similar with (full-back) Kostas Tsimikas, by the way. Unbelievable," Klopp continued.
“It was first after the game. We saw the situation when he got it; him himself, nobody would have thought something happened there. We got him off the pitch and he said ‘I feel a little bit’ and next day, scans and then a surgeon has to look at it.
“That’s how we do it, different information. In the end, it’s strange but we were happy that we heard the final diagnosis.”
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