{"id":1203793,"date":"2022-09-13T22:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T22:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/liv-2-1-aja-brilliance-in-jotas-display-suggests-why-he-should-be-starting-every-liverpools-game\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T22:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T22:50:13","slug":"liv-2-1-aja-brilliance-in-jotas-display-suggests-why-he-should-be-starting-every-liverpools-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/liv-2-1-aja-brilliance-in-jotas-display-suggests-why-he-should-be-starting-every-liverpools-game\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV 2-1 AJA: Brilliance In Jota&#8217;s Display Suggests Why He Should Be Starting Every Liverpool&#8217;s Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Diogo Jota returned to Liverpool\u2019s starting lineup against AFC Ajax and was instrumental in the victory. Meanwhile, his performance has spoken highly of why he should be starting every Liverpool game.<\/p>\n<p>Jota\u2019s work ethic is underrated and it\u2019s something he has over his competitors in Roberto Firmino and Darwin Nunez. In the manager\u2019s quest to look for balance, he decided to start the Portuguese this evening, and the decision worked out.<\/p>\n<p>Jota received the ball in a tight space in the first half and set up Mohamed Salah for the opener. Jota also attempted and completed two dribbles, made one tackle, made two key passes, and created one big chance which was crucial to the win.<\/p>\n<p>He was replaced by Darwin Nunez in the second half as Klopp thought of rotating his team and giving him some rest. Kudus scored the equalizer for Ajax before Joel Matip\u2019s header at stoppage time gave Liverpool the victory. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/0072b806a0634446b9d6ed1641e266cd\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3afeebd8c06644b7bf7cc9c0c942c61f\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Here are Diogo Jota\u2019s statistics against Ajax:<\/p>\n<p>100% tackles won<\/p>\n<p>100% dribbles completed<\/p>\n<p>100% crosses completed\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>6\/6 ground duels won<\/p>\n<p>3 fouls won<\/p>\n<p>2 chances created<\/p>\n<p>1 assist<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/10b344c1d0544f278cc24bf665f2f86c\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Jota may not have scored, but he put in an underrated shift which suggested why he should be starting every Liverpool game.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: NigerNews (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nDiogo Jota<br \/>Kudus<br \/>LIV<br \/>Liverpool<br \/>Portuguese<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diogo Jota returned to Liverpool\u2019s starting lineup against AFC Ajax and was instrumental in the victory. Meanwhile, his performance has spoken highly of why he should be starting every Liverpool game. Jota\u2019s work ethic is underrated and it\u2019s something he has over his competitors in Roberto Firmino and Darwin Nunez. In the manager\u2019s quest to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}