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Liverpool will consult players and staff before taking a decision on whether this weekend's scheduled friendly against Preston North End will go ahead.

Pre-season training was due to begin today (Monday, July 7) but the players will now return to the AXA Training Center on Tuesday instead, following last week's tragic passing of Diogo Jota.

Jota died alongside his brother in a car crash in Spain, leaving behind his new wife and their three young children, and prompting an outpouring of grief from the global soccer community.

Liverpool is due to play Preston at Deepdale on Sunday, July 13, but the possibility of the fixture being postponed or canceled is firmly on the table.

It has been confirmed the game will be shown live on TV in the UK, should it go ahead.

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There will be a somber mood as the players return to training for the first time since Jota passed, and Mohamed Salah last week said that it would be "extremely difficult to accept that Diogo won’t be there when we go back."

While several players attended Jota and his brothers' funeral last week, his passing is likely to hit home even harder with the players when they return to the place of work that they shared with him up until a matter of weeks ago.

A decision on whether the game between Preston and Liverpool will go ahead will be made once the squad has returned and “all players and staff have been consulted,” according to the Liverpool Echo.

There is a 13-day gap between the Preston game and Liverpool's second scheduled pre-season friendly, which is the first game of the Reds' pre-season tour of Asia, against AC Milan in Hong Kong on July 26.



The pair were journeying from Portugal to the Spanish port city of Santander, from where they intended to travel on a ferry to Portsmouth ahead of returning to Liverpool, when they died in a crash.

Jota had been advised against air travel after undergoing lung surgery earlier in the summer

The pair's joint funeral took place in Gondomar, on the outskirts of Porto, on Saturday morning.Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk arrived with a floral tribute in his hands, as did Andy Robertson, while Liverpool head coach Arne Slot and several other Reds players also turned out to bid their final farewells to Jota.