Diogo Jota has started the season and will have to adapt to Liverpool’s new style of play and personality.
If there’s one player who can’t handle stiff competition for a place up front at Liverpool, it’s Diogo Jota.
When the Portuguese finally arrived at Anfield three years ago, he easily accepted the difficult task that Timo Werner and others ultimately rejected. Roberto Firmino was to form one of the most famous attacking trios of all time. Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane.
Despite Jota suffering two injuries last season, Jurgen Klopp’s side will be looking to make their 125th Premier League appearance against Nottingham Forest on Sunday and show how they have built a reputation for success at Anfield.With Salah still on the right wing, Jota will compete with Cody Gakpo and Darwin Nunez for the central attacking spot, while Luis Diaz will compete in defense on the left wing. Jota, who has scored five goals in 11 games this season, including Thursday’s 5-1 Europa League rout of Toulouse, is pleased with his performance.”So far so good,” he said.
“I think I’ve scored a lot of goals in my career so I can do that. And when I go out on the field, I try to do my best.”When I first got here, everyone was talking about the best trio in the world. But everyone is different. Of course, things have become more diverse now. Help and everyone scores points to make life difficult for the other.
Ultimately, what we want is to win the game. “Honestly, having someone who can score is useful because that’s what the game is about. We have a lot of that, especially this season, where we have a midfielder who can score and that’s important because it allows us to create and score . gate.” In any part of the field. “Scoring goals makes life easier.”Jota knows this very well.
He has scored 12 goals in his last 20 games for Liverpool, second only to Salah, after not scoring for the club for over a year before scoring at Leeds United last April. He also scored twice for his native Portugal in September.
Only two players have qualified for the Premier League this season, but the 26-year-old is happy to score goals regardless of the competition. “No, I think the score is always important,” he says. “Sometimes I start the game and sometimes I don’t. “We have to take advantage of the playing time and when we are on the pitch to score,” he said.
Of course, Klopp has been careful to give minutes to all his attacking options this season. Jota has made seven starts in all competitions. He was handed a one-match ban at Tottenham Hotspur earlier this month after being sent off for two bookable offences.
An independent panel later decided that this was incorrect. Salah, on the other hand, was banned from starting with no. 10 and no. 9. Diaz. 6 each for Nunez and each gun. Between them, the strikers have scored 25 of Liverpool’s 33 goals this season.
Jota’s last visit to Forest in April was fondly remembered as he scored twice in a 3-2 win. Steve Cooper’s side will be favorites to win and maintain their strong start to the season despite pushing Arsenal and Manchester United to the limit with their victory at Chelsea this season.”Yes, playing in a team like Liverpool is a responsibility,” said the Portuguese. “Obviously people expect us to always win, especially in games like this.
As professionals we have to prove that on the pitch. That’s the hardest part, but I think we can win the game at Anfield.”
