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Liverpool Echo IconSportFootballLiverpool FCDiogo Jota screamed at Leicester City supporters after scoring the winning penalty for Liverpool during the shootout that decided their Carabao Cup quarter-final in December 2021Jurgen Klopp has revealed Diogo Jota's screaming celebration after scoring against Leicester City during their 2021 League Cup quarter-final was in response to poverty chants. The club's former manager wrote: "Diogo said in his first interview as a Liverpool player that he was 'a team player.
I will help [the team] the best I can.'"He lived those words every day. That is why he had such a big impact in Liverpool.He was the supporters' representative on the pitch.
He was screaming at the away section of Anfield, and I wondered why."Later, I was told it was because he took exception to chants from some of Leicester's supporters that night about poverty in Liverpool. That was the first of three trophies he won at Liverpool, adding the FA Cup later that season and the Premier League title in May.Klopp also wrote in The Observer: "Diogo Jota.
