{"id":1154,"date":"2025-08-16T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/1154\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T01:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:23:07","slug":"mo-salah-in-tears-for-diogo-jota-as-he-shares-emotional-moment-with-the-kop-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/1154\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Salah in tears for Diogo Jota as he shares emotional moment with the Kop – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mo Salah<\/a> couldn\u2019t hold back the tears as Anfield sang for Diogo Jota<\/a> after full time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following Federico Chiesa<\/a>\u2018s decisive 88th-minute strike to put Liverpool ahead against Bournemouth<\/a>, Salah sealed the win deep into injury time.<\/p>\n

As he ran to the Kop, he made the shark gesture Jota would often produce when celebrating goals and, after the match, the Egyptian shared an emotional moment with supporters.<\/p>\n

With most of his teammates having left the pitch, Salah stayed and faced the Kop, standing and staring as the crowd sang Jota\u2019s song in unison. <\/p>\n

Unable to hold back the tears, Liverpool\u2019s No. 11 cried for his friend and applauded the fans before leaving and heading down the tunnel.<\/p>\n

The full-time scenes came at the end of an emotionally charged night which began with tributes before kick-off. <\/p>\n

Ahead of the game, supporters sang You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone and raised cards to reveal a mosaic reading \u2018AS 30\u2019 on the lower Sir Kenny Dalglish<\/a> Stand and \u2018DJ20\u2019 on the Kop. <\/p>\n

These are, of course, references to Jota and his brother, Andre Silva, who passed away in a car accident on July 3.<\/p>\n

In addition to Salah producing the shark celebration, Hugo Ekitike<\/a> and Cody Gakpo<\/a> also paid tribute to Jota, making a \u201920\u2019 with their fingers after scoring Liverpool\u2019s first and second goals, respectively.<\/p>\n

Before kick-off, Bournemouth<\/a> fans also paid their respects to Jota, holding up a banner that said, \u2018Diogo Jota<\/a>, 20, together\u2019.<\/p>\n

With Jota\u2019s widow, Rute, and family in attendance, Liverpool fans also unveiled banners on the Kop.<\/p>\n

As one said,\u2019Rute, Dinis, Duarte, Mafalda \u2013 Anfield will always be your home. You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mo Salah couldn\u2019t hold back the tears as Anfield sang for Diogo Jota after full time. Following Federico…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,560,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-1154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-liverpool-fc","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}