When joining Liverpool, Jota made it clear he was hungry to compete in the Champions League once again. So it was only fitting that one of the highlights of his first campaign at Anfield came in the competition as he scored a hat-trick in an astonishing 5-0 victory away at Atalanta.

As a child Diogo Jota idolized Cristiano Ronaldo. In a career that took him to soccer stardom, he would go on to call the Portugal great a teammate and win some of the sport’s biggest trophies.

The Portuguese, who has died aged 28, was a force of nature on the pitch and cherished by his team-mates off it