{"id":62857,"date":"2025-07-13T18:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/62857\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:21:14","slug":"liverpool-players-and-fans-commemorate-jota-at-emotional-preston-friendly-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/62857\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool players and fans commemorate Jota at emotional Preston friendly &#8211; as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postpublished at 17:05 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>17:05 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Preston 1-3 Liverpool<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/7d3c5647-f23a-42fd-8df3-fd7e281c6365.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Daniel Austin<\/strong><br \/>BBC Sport at Deepdale<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Liverpool supporters purchased their tickets for a summer friendly away at Preston, they will have done so hoping for a sunny day out and a chance to get the first look at some exciting new signings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They would not have expected what today\u2019s match tragically ended up becoming \u2013 a profoundly melancholy memorial service for a footballer they adored, with what felt like a pretty redundant football match attached afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those who packed out the Bill Shankly Kop belted out Jota\u2019s name before kick-off and followed that up with regular airing throughout the match, including a rendition beginning as the clock hit 20 \u2013 in honour of the Portuguese forward\u2019s now retired shirt number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Postpublished at 17:05 British Summer Time 17:05 BST FT: Preston 1-3 Liverpool Daniel AustinBBC Sport at Deepdale When&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-62857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114847316855916222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}