Players from Liverpool and Portugal’s national team joined family and friends for the funeral of their teammate Diogo Jota and his brother.

The soccer world is in mourning following the death of Liverpool and Portugal star Diogo Jota in a car crash in Spain early on Thursday morning. He was 28.

But exactly the same could be said for the opposite approach. Mohamed Salah wrote in his tribute to Jota that the idea of returning to Liverpool after the break actively frightened him, so without attempting to speculate, the idea of playing on Merseyside without Jota might be took hard to bare.