Insider: Liverpool handed significant Diogo Jota boost after confirmed news
Diogo Jota will be handed a “boost” by travelling with Liverpool to their mid-season training camp in Dubai.
That is the view of medical expert Ben Dinnery, who runs the Premier Injuries site and has a background in injury and data analysis, speaking exclusively to Football Insider.
Jota has been out with a calf injury since October and is not expected to return until February.
As quoted by the Athletic earlier this week (4 December), Pep Ljinders confirmed the 26-year-old would travel with the rest of his teammates to Dubai.
“Psychologically, it’s a change of environment and different weather which will help,” Dinnery told Football Insider‘s Connor Whitley.
“Also, one of the important things for any player that is injured long-term is to make them feel part of the group and a part of the process.
“Quite often those returning who are working individually are fairly isolated because they are in before the rest of the group and staying longer, they are not making the trips with the rest of the team, they are not part of that pre-match work so it can be quite difficult.
“They maybe sometimes struggle to find that motivation to keep on going when it’s day after day after day.
“Diogo Jota had that in the summer so he’s coming off the back of that hamstring issue.
“It’s the culmination of several months so you have to have a fairly strong mindset and be able to motivate yourself.
“Going away as part of the group makes you feel part of the team again. You work on the same schedule, eat together and are part of the group without the distractions of home.
“It will give him that little bit of a boost because he’ll feel like he’s contributing to something.”
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