Diogo Jota’s sons will be among the mascots when Liverpool play Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League at Anfield on Saturday.

It’s the first meeting between the Portugal international’s former clubs since he died in a car crash, along with his brother Andre Silva, in the Spanish province of Zamora in early July.

Wolves players, staff, head coach Rob Edwards and interim executive chairman Nathan Shi also visited Anfield on Friday night to place flowers among the tributes outside the ground.

Dinis and Duarte, two of Jota’s three children with wife Rute Cardoso, will be on the pitch with the players prior to the game. It promises to be an emotional occasion with Jota’s family invited by Liverpool as special guests.

They previously attended the opening league match of the season against Bournemouth in August when mosaics across two stands displayed ‘DJ 20’ and ‘AS 30’ during a minute’s silence. A banner on the Kop declared: ‘Rute, Dinis, Duarte, Mafalda — Anfield will always be your home.’

Mafalda is Jota’s daughter who was born last year.

Liverpool responded to the tragedy in July by retiring the No 20 shirt in Jota’s memory. They also unveiled plans for a memorial sculpture at Anfield as the focal point for a permanent tribute to the 28-year-old forward, who scored 65 goals in 182 games for the club.

The sense of loss was also profoundly felt at Wolves, where he spent three years before joining Liverpool in a £45million transfer in 2020.

Wolves inducted him into their Hall of Fame and prior to their first game of the season they unveiled a stunning tifo image of Jota which read: ‘We’ll remember you when you walk in fields of gold.’ It was a reference to Sting’s Fields of Gold, Jota’s favourite song.

We visited Anfield this evening to remember Diogo 💛 pic.twitter.com/hr4Z8UXMkp

— Wolves (@Wolves) December 26, 2025

In his programme notes for Saturday’s game, Liverpool head coach Arne Slot wrote: “Reflecting on everything that has happened over the last 12 months ignites a rollercoaster of emotions but it is normal at this time of year to look back to everything that has happened.

“Doing so leads me to think especially of the family of Diogo Jota on what will be their first Christmas without him.

“It is not my place to tell them where they should look for comfort — if that is even possible — but I can only hope that the feeling of love and affection that Diogo still generates brings them some solace.”