'Competition for places makes us push ourselves' - Diogo Jota

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The Portugal international told Liverpoolfc.com: “I think inside competition is always good, [you] push yourself to the limit and it’s good for us because we have the options. “We will have loads of games and will need everyone, so it’s very helpful that we can be like that.” Read the rest of our post-Darmstadt interview with Jota below.

On Diaz, who rounded off the win with a sensational flicked volley… He’s unpredictable, he’s that kind of winger who goes one-v-one and can create chances from nothing and it’s very helpful for us when we reach, especially the final third, to be able to do something with the ball. That’s always helpful and I think last season he had an injury as well and hopefully this season he can crack on and show us what he has to offer.

The way we want to play is always intense so that’s key for us to improve and I think we showed offensively we created some good goals but we also conceded some. On the season opener at Chelsea… We feel that we want to show something different from last season.