Diogo Jota has hinted at Liverpool transfer that could transform attack
The beaming smile that lit up Diogo Jota's face after just 45 minutes alongside Alexis Mac Allister was rather telling.
No sooner had Liverpool's new £35m midfielder threaded an eye-of-the-needle ball for Jota to score his second during the 4-2 victory over Karlsruher SC was the No.20 being quizzed about the talents of the Argentine World Cup winner.
"I really like these kinds of players," beamed Jota. "They just see these passes. I just need to make the run and he will make it. I think I will link up very well with him."
The Portuguese forward was in Liverpool's second-half XI that took to the Wildparkstadion turf on Wednesday evening as part of a youthful front line alongside teenagers Ben Doak and Calum Scanlon. Slightly deeper, in the engine room, sat Cody Gakpo and Mac Allister, with James McConnell as the anchor.
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For Jota, Wednesday night couldn't have been more dissimilar to the events of 12 months ago when he was deprived of a pre-season schedule after suffering a relapse of a hamstring - he had initially sustained during an outing for Portugal during that summer's Nations League fixtures - during day one of the Reds' pre-season tour of Asia.
Having fired 21 goals in the previous season as Liverpool chased Champions League and Premier League glory, the setback would see Jota sidelined until early September when he was introduced as a late second-half substitute during the stalemate with Everton at Goodison Park.
This time around, however, the former Wolverhampton Wanderers, Atletico Madrid and FC Porto forward will be looking to make up for the stop-start campaign he
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