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Portuguese star Diego Jota, the Liverpool star, shone on Tuesday night after scoring his first hat-trick in the “Reds” shirt in the European Champions League.
Jota, the promising “Reds” forward, scored 3 goals against Atalanta in 16, 33 and 54 minutes, to lead Liverpool to a five-goal victory, and the only one to lead in Group D with 9 points.
And Jota became the fifth player in Liverpool history to score a Champions League hat-trick, according to statistics network “Squaka”. He was predeceased by Jota Michael Owen (2002), Yossi Benayoun (2007), Philip Coutinho (2017) and Sadio Mane (2018).
The “Opta” network reported that 23-year-old Jota became the third Portuguese player to score a Champions League hat-trick, after Cristiano Ronaldo preceded him with an 8 hat-trick and Rei Pedro by a single hat-trick.
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Coach Juergen Klopp joined Portuguese striker Jota at the expense of Brazilian Firmino, who is nowhere near his level, and asked him to take on a spearhead position, but he did not disappoint.
The youngster managed to score a hat-trick 3 times in each of the Champions League and European League last season, while in the ranks of Wolverhampton.
Source: “Agencies”
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