After mohamed salah, manchester united legend paul scholes has praised diogo jota as liverpool’s best attacker. On boxing day, the portuguese forward returned from injury to make an impactful comeback off the bench. To close the game at turf moor, he scored the second goal for the reds against burnley. Paul scholes said on premier league productions that jota scores a lot of goals, the most of which are really important. Jota is only behind mohamed salah in terms of reds output, according to the former manchester united midfielder.
Scholes said, as quoted by hitc, “he is (important.” He chipped in with a lot of targets and a lot of very important goals. It’s a good thing that it comes on for the last 5-10 minutes as a cameo appearance. Against burnley, it’s a good goal. It’s not the one he meant, but just hit it hard and low as you can and hope it comes in.” “but he is a very important player for liverpool,” he said. Not all of their front three chip in a lot. But he seems to be salah’s son who does it.
Jota joined liverpool from wolverhampton wanderers in the summer of 2020 for £41 million. In 131 games for the reds, the 27-year-old has scored 50 goals and 17 assists. When we realized that many of jota’s appearances had been substituted, we were able to see his figures better. For a team, he has previously had to fight roberto firmino and sadio mane.
He is now competing for a spot in the front three against players like luis diaz, cody gakpo, and darwin nunez. Klopp restored his faith in him by scoring the reds’ second goal to give them some breathing space. Since suffering a muscle injury in late november, the portuguese attacker was sidelined for almost a month. This season, jota has scored nine goals in 18 games in all competitions.
