{"id":3007,"date":"2025-04-05T06:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/3007\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T06:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:11:14","slug":"diogo-jota-interview-breaking-down-his-derby-winner-and-the-final-at-fulham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/3007\/","title":{"rendered":"Diogo Jota interview: Breaking down his derby winner and the &#8216;final&#8217; at Fulham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can you tell us about the goal itself? It&#8217;s becoming a bit of a trademark of yours with the quick feet, getting yourself into a little bit of space and then sending the goalkeeper the wrong way. Is it all about instinct or do you work on that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s the kind of player I am. [When] I was a kid I played further back on the pitch, I was like a midfielder and I always did these runs with the ball. But now this doesn&#8217;t happen as often because obviously I play as a striker now. But every time I have that opportunity to face the game, I think I still do that. [Against Everton], I recovered the ball because the ball was with their midfielder, Lucho [Luis Diaz] was there and could give me [the ball] and you just take it as it is. The No.6 was coming, so I tried to go past him. I learned in the first half when I had a similar chance and I thought I should have just kept on dribbling instead of shooting, and that&#8217;s what I did in the second half. Fortunately for me and for the team, it was a goal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big a moment was it for you personally? This season has possibly been a bit frustrating for you&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I remember when I came back from one of my injuries against Fulham as well, that goal was really important. I think I scored quite a few important goals this season and that&#8217;s always what I try to do. Obviously this season in general is not what we want, like you said, with a few setbacks. But every time I&#8217;m on the pitch, I try to help the team. We all know that players aren&#8217;t always in their best shape in terms of numbers. But in terms of effort, I think I&#8217;ve always been the same every time I&#8217;m on the pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can you tell us about the goal itself? It&#8217;s becoming a bit of a trademark of yours with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,1051,13,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,12,1042,1047,1043,14,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-3007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-homepage","12":"tag-klopp","13":"tag-lfc","14":"tag-lfc-news","15":"tag-lfctv","16":"tag-lfctv-go","17":"tag-liverpool-fc","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","19":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","20":"tag-liverpool-football-club","21":"tag-mane","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-reds","24":"tag-salah","25":"tag-the-reds","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114283877725397730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}