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Jul 4, 2025, 08:03 AM ET

Diogo Jota's teammates at Liverpool have been expressing their grief following the forward's death on Thursday with Jordan Henderson visibly emotional while laying flowers in the Portugal international's memory at Anfield and captain Virgil van Dijk saying he is in "total disbelief."

Jota and his brother, André Silva, were killed in a car crash near Zamora, Spain, on Thursday.

They have three children, the youngest born last year.

Jota's death has come as an understandable shock to his teammates, many of whom have taken to social media to give their condolences.

Jordan Henderson was visibly emotional when laying flowers and a Liverpool scarf in Diogo Jota's memory at Anfield on Friday. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

"Man, I can't believe it, I don't wanna believe it," Van Dijk said in a post on Instagram.

It's been a privilege to have stood by your side on the pitch, and to have been your friend off it."

Tears could be seen running down the face of Liverpool's former captain Henderson, who now plays for Dutch club Ajax, as he laid a bouquet of flowers and Liverpool scarf alongside hundreds of others outside Anfield on Friday.

In an Instagram post expressing sympathy for the "unimaginable" pain the brothers' family will be feeling, Henderson said: "Jots it was a pleasure to share a pitch with you but more importantly a friendship.

Thank you for everything you brought into this world, we will all miss you."

Diogo Jota helped Liverpool win the Premier League title last season. Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images

Mohamed Salah said in a post on X: "I am truly lost for words.

Teammates come and go but not like this.

"It's going to be extremely difficult to accept that Diogo won't be there when we go back.

They will never be forgotten."

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Trent Alexander-Arnold, who left Liverpool for Real Madrid this summer, said in post on social media that Jota was a "true friend."

"It's so difficult to find the right words when your head and heart are struggling to accept that someone you care so much about has gone," he said.