Liverpool launched their 2025/26 campaign with a comfortable 3-1 friendly win over Preston North End, though football was not the focus of the afternoon. Taking place just 10 days after Liverpool striker Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva were tragically killed in a car accident, the tie was as much a memorial as it was a friendly. Red No20 shirts pockmarked every stand, while the away contingent brought with them an impressive number of commemorative flags
