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Arne Slot was moved by the tributes to Diogo Jota(Image: PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Arne Slot has revealed that he would've turned to Diogo Jota to rescue Liverpool as they chased a late goal in their opening game of the new Premier League season against Bournemouth.

Ultimately, Liverpool found an 88th-minute winner through Federico Chiesa before Mo Salah brilliantly made it 4-2 in stoppage time and sealed all three points for the reigning champions.

Post-match, however, Slot revealed that he 'would have loved' to have been able to bring Jota on.



"Normally at 2-2 everyone knows which player I look to at that moment in time," the Reds boss said.

"I would have loved to bring in Diogo Jota, but I could not for terrible reasons.

"[The goal] was a great moment for me but my thoughts go to Diogo," Chiesa told BBC Sport.

"I think for what we have seen it was his day.

That's the only thing I could say.

Liverpool remembered their former No.20, Diogo Jota(Image: Michael Steele/Getty Images)

"At the end of the day we have to focus on the football.

Of course, Diogo would have helped us a lot but unfortunately he was somewhere else and he helped us in another way."

Hugo Ekitike, who scored the Reds' first goal and set up their second, signed for Liverpool after Jota's death but felt the enormity of his passing.