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Portuguese star Diego Jota, the Liverpool star, shone on Tuesday night, after scoring his first hat-trick with the “Reds” jersey in the European Champions League.
Gota, the promising “Reds” forward, scored 3 goals against Atalanta in the 16th, 33rd and 54th minutes, to lead Liverpool to a five-goal victory and be the only one at the top of Group D with 9 points.
And Jota became the fifth player in Liverpool history to score a hat-trick in the Champions League, according to the “Squaka” statistics network. He was preceded by Jota, Michael Owen (2002), Yossi Benayoun (2007), Philip Coutinho (2017) and Sadio Mane (2018).
The “Opta” chain indicated that Jota, 23, became the third Portuguese player to score a hat-trick in the Champions League, after Cristiano Ronaldo had preceded him with 8 hat-tricks and Rei Pedro with only one. hat-trick.
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Coach Juergen Klopp joined his Portuguese forward, Jota, at the expense of Brazilian Firmino, who is recently far from his level, and asked him to take a spearhead position.
The young player managed to score a hat-trick on 3 occasions in both the Champions League and the European League last season, while he was in the ranks of Wolverhampton.
Source: “Agencies”
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