Liverpool coach Arne Slot observes the English Premier League match between Liverpool FC and AFC Bournemouth, in Liverpool, Great Britain, on August 15, 2025.
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Liverpool He lifted the curtain of the new 2025-2026 season of the Premier League With a victory in the last minutes against the Bournemouth (4-2) This Friday at the opening of the first day.
In an amfield excited by tribute prior to Diogo Jotathe Portuguese attacker who died in July in a traffic accident in Spain, the Champion Club of England gave a good entrance image.
After a signing market in which the Reds have invested a high amount (312 million euros or 366 million dollars), the first goal of this league was the work of one of the newcomers, the Frenchman Hugo Ekitike (Minutes 37).
The Dutch Cody Agat He extended the account in 49, but a double of Antoine Sememeyo, culminating two counterattacks, allowed visitors to balance the score (64 and 77).
When the clash seemed to drive to a distribution of points, the Italian Federico Chiesa (88), with a volley from the penal point, and the attacker Mohamed is wrong (90+4), in an effective individual action, put the final 4-2 and left the three points at the champion's house.
Arne Slot's words about Diogo Jota
The Dutch coach spoke after the victory and referred to the absence of the Portuguese player: “When the game was 2-2, they already know which player he was looking for in the alternate bank to turn the situation: Diogo Jota. However, I could not, for terrible reasons, as everyone knows, “said Liverpool coach.
“The main emotion should be how impressive and powerful the tribute to Diogo was. The banner that put the kop, the way it was sung You’ll Never Walk Alonethe way they sang for Diogo, ”he added.
“They never stopped singing him: Before the game, in the first minute, after 20 minutes and at the end of the game. Everything was so impressive and so powerful, and I think that is my main emotion after the game, ”he concluded.
Anfield missed Diogo Jota
The staging of a new season in the Premier was clearly marked by the memory of Diogo Jotaduring a five relevant player of Liverpool, who died in a traffic accident with his brother Andre Silva.
The gestures of honor to the Portuguese, to the 20 network, have been permanent. They have accentuated in the last hours, with the proximity of the opening of the competition that have precisely opened their team, the Liverpoolin Anfield, in front of Bournemouth.
Clubs like him Chelsealike him Wolverhamptonamong others, they have remembered the player who died weeks ago. The game goes through Diogo Jota, honest in a hot and felt for the entire stadium. The players of all the teams will carry black bracelets and on the giant screens there will be images with the trajectory of the player.
The Legacy of the Portuguese has gone beyond the pitch. A huge typhus, in one of the funds of the Anfield stadium, DJ20, illuminated the preamble of the face to face, of the first clash of the competition. An emotional minute of silencein memory of Diogo and his brother Andre Silva, who also had his reflection in the enclosure: AS30.
With the player of the footballer present at the stadium, the taxes followed each other before the ball rolled.
He 'You’ll never walk alone’ More sense sounded in Liverpool while the echoes among the followers attending the opening of the Premier who contributed with a spectacular and emotional video with the figure of the footballer.
Outside the field the memory was permanent. Liverpool sells in its city stores and on the Internet a T -shirt in tribute to Jota with the figure of the player accompanied by registration “On His name, Diogo” (in his name, Diogo), in honor of the song that fans sing, and “Forever 20” (always 20).
Everything that is collected by the sale of these shirts will go to the Liverpool Foundation To finance base football, the same case as with what is perceived for the sale of registration in the names of the name and the number that the player dressed.
In addition, Liverpool decided in July Remove the number of the first male, female and quarry team, in a unique gesture in its history. Liverpool players will carry the “Forever 20” message on their shirts throughout the season.
The floral offerings that people have left in Anfield since the death of the player have been collected and transformed into floral arrangements for the surroundings of the stadium and the sports city and also for the Construction of a permanent memorial which will be inaugurated in the future.
Until then, a temporary zone has been enabled in Anfield so that those who want to present their respects to Jota and his brother André Silva.
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