Jurgen Klopp has been discussing Diogo Jota after the attacker’s starring display for Liverpool vs Watford.
The Reds would face off with Roy Hodgson’s side in Saturday’s early kick-off, eventually coming away with a hard-fought win.
Liverpool struggled to break the Hornets down for lengthy stretches, but broke the deadlock en route to a 2-0 triumph when Diogo Jota headed in from a Joe Gomez cross:
A Liverpool right-back delivering an inch-perfect cross to produce a goal? Sounds familiar, but this time it’s Joe Gomez 👊
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Klopp on Diogo Jota
After his side’s victory, which saw Liverpool move top of the Premier League for a few hours, Jurgen Klopp was full of praise for Jota.
Speaking post-match, the German revealed his take that the Portuguese is ‘not a pure winger’: “It was always clear that Diogo is not a pure winger; Diogo is a striker who can defend the wing and play on the wing – both wings.
“That means you have to end up in these kind of situations where we struggle sometimes if we are a bit too static. This was a very fluid situation where Joey was high, got the ball, a great cross, but then if there is nobody [there] it is still the same cross with no outcome. It was a great goal, absolutely.”
Klopp then went on to suggest that Jota is slowly developing into a ‘top, world-class striker’:
“He is that guy and it was, for sure, always in him, but I’ve said now a couple of times, at Wolves he had a different job and he did that job that good that we thought, ‘We want him.’ Since he has come in, he has improved a lot,” Klopp said.
“That is a little bit up to his age, he is growing into the top, world-class striker role step by step.”
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