The first friendly preseason game of Liverpoolbefore him Preston North End In the Deepdale stadium, it became an emotional tribute to the Portuguese footballer Diogo Jota and his brother Andrédeceased in a traffic accident 10 days ago.
The emotion flooded the return to the Liverpool games, in a first friendly since the loss of Diogo Jota, which was present in each act of Deepdale. The Captain of the Preston, Ben Whiteman, while a singer sang the 'You will never walk alone', deposited a crown of flowers in one of the funds in memory of the two young deceased soccer players. There was the visiting fans who thanked the gesture and recalled the figure of the Portuguese.
“Diogo Jota, forever our number 20” prayed a banner of a Liverpool fan in a stand in which scarves rose with the name of jot André.
Black bracelets
The pain of the owners of Liverpool in the central circle, with Mohamed is wrong moved, and the bench, with the coach Arne Slot at the head and presence of captains who were not going to play, street dresses, such as Robertson and Virgil van DijkThey marked the first of the tributes that will be given in a match of the 'Reds'. The two teams wore black bracelets.
In sports, Liverpool won 3-1 in its first test, with Arne Slot aligning two different teams in each part, with the debuts of Giorgi Mamardashvili in goal in the first act and in the second of Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez.
The first goal of the friendly came after a center of Chiesa that did not succeed to finish Szoboszlai and took advantage of it on the second stick to mark Conor Bradley. Before, in the 20th minute, the images of Diogo and André on the videomarkers were re -screened. Liverpool's fans spent ten minutes in a row singing the song they composed for Diogo Jota and always heard in Anfield's stands.
Tribute celebrations
Already in the second act, at 53 minutes, a serious error by Central Storey in a pass back to his goalkeeper, left alone Darwin Nuñez In the hand in hand with Iiversen, whom he surpassed with a cut to mark pleasure and make the two celebrations that Jota always made in his memory. The Uruguayan striker ended up sitting on the grass with his hands simulating a game of video console.
again He repeated the gesture with his arms in his celebration by Diogo, after scopefully scoreing the third, after Liam Lindsay had cut distances marking the both of the Preston with a stubbornness after a corner kick.
