The anniversary is unlikely to be celebrated. Not at Anfield, anyway. On Monday, it will be a year to the day since Diogo Jota last scored for Liverpool. Unless he scores against Arsenal – and, with five goals in as many games against them for Liverpool, he often does – it will be a barren year.
If there are many measures of the extraordinary decline of Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool, Jota’s diminishing goal return feels one of the more overlooked elements, yet when he scored against Manchester City on 10 April, 2022, it was his 21st goal of a campaign that promised a possible quadruple.
