"It will be an emotional day" - Wolves and Liverpool come together to remember Diogo Jota

His shocking death from a car accident in the summer, alongside his brother Andre Silva, rocked both Wolves and Liverpool and the wider football community.

Today, both clubs face off in the Premier League for the first time since his tragic passing and Wolves head coach Rob Edwards - who was under-23s coach at Wolves when Jota played for the club - expects it to be an emotional afternoon.

He said: "I wasn't lucky enough to work with him directly, but whenever our paths crossed, he was just always really, really warm and really open to talking. 

"Whenever I watched him play or had the pleasure of watching their training, he was just a top player and a top person. 

"It was probably fleeting moments that our paths would cross in the corridor and I might pick his brains on something. Just a wonderful person.

"It will be an emotional day I think for our supporters as well, obviously with the link. Just an incredible person as well as a footballer. 

"There was a number of them here at that sort of period of time that were pretty incredible and it was obvious that they belonged in the top echelons of football. 

"We were at that stage competing around those sorts of areas, but he went again, didn't he? There was no surprise in that at all.

"I thought he was amazing from the moment he walked in."

Wolves paid tribute to Jota on the opening game of the season against Manchester City with a tifo in the South Bank at Molineux, with former team-mates and compatriots on the pitch at the time.

Jota's favourite song, Fields of Gold by Sting, played before kick-off against City too, on a day the club remembered a fan-favourite attacker that was taken far too soon at the age of 28.

Matt Doherty played with Jota during that incredibly successful time under Nuno Espirito Santo and the defender hopes to do him proud at Anfield today, just weeks after what would have been his 29th birthday.

He said: “When we played City at the first game of the season, with everything that went on before the game, me and (Jose) Sa found that quite difficult, because he was just a superstar, and I'm not even talking about on the pitch, just as a person. 

"An unbelievable person, so humble, funny, and just a great team-mate to have around the place, but somebody who put the team first. With forwards that's not always the case, you want your forward to be kind of selfish at times, but that was never the case with him.

“He was an incredible human being, and it was an awful situation in the summer.

" It was one that a lot of us really struggled with, especially in that first game. I still listen to that song all the time. 

"I hope something special happens when we play them and I hope his family is there, because I’d love to see them. I know that he loved Wolves as well, so hopefully we can put on a show as well that would make him think it’s the club he recognises.”