Diogo Jota: Jamie Carragher believes Liverpool forward is club's best Premier League finisher ahead of Mohamed Salah, Luis Suarez and Michael Owen
Diogo Jota scored two goals and set up another in Liverpool's 4-0 win over Bournemouth on Sunday; Jamie Carragher said Jota is the club's best Premier League finisher, ahead of of Mohamed Salah, Michael Owen, Fernando Torres and Luis Suarez — so who is statistically the best?
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Sunday 21 January 2024 20:41, UK
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Jamie Carragher claims Diogo Jota is Liverpool's best Premier League finisher after his double inspired a 4-0 win over Bournemouth.
Jota scored twice and set up Darwin Nunez's first goal as Jurgen Klopp's side extended their lead at the top of the Premier League to five points in the victory on the south coast.
The Portugal forward ranks 15th in Liverpool's list of all-time Premier League goalscorers with 38 goals — but Sky Sports pundit Carragher believes Jota is the best finisher out of all those ahead of him in the list, including current Liverpool top scorer Mohamed Salah.
«I think of some of the strikers I've played alongside: Michael Owen, Luis Suarez, Fernando Torres, Robbie Fowler. I think he [Jota] is the best finisher,» Carragher said.
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«Robbie (Fowler) maybe [could be ahead of him] in terms of pure finishing, hard and low, into the corner. But [his two goals against Bournemouth are] typical Jota. When he gets the chance he is so clinical.
»This season, he's got a goal or an assist every 84 minutes. There's only two or three players in the Premier League who are higher than that.
«He sums up Liverpool's recruitment over the last five or six years. He's a player who was in and out of the Wolves team, and when he was bought a lot of people were scratching
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