Tributes at Anfield Stadium, home of Liverpool, in memory of Diogo Jota who has died at the age of 28. The Portugal forward died along with his younger brother Andre Silva in the accident in Zamora on Thursday morning. _(Image: Peter Byrne/PA Wire)_
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LIVERPOOL'S opening game of the Premier League season against the [Cherries](http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/cherries/clubnews/) is set to be 'very emotional' after the death of Diogo Jota.
Jota was killed along with his younger brother Andre Silva in Zamora in Spain in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The club will 'honour the forward with the respect and affection he so richly deserves' in the coming days, weeks and months.
Liverpool's first game of their league title defence will be against Andoni Iraola's Bournemouth at Anfield on Friday, August 15.
Ste Hoare, of fan channel The Redmen TV, is confident the club will strike the right tone when remembering the 28-year-old.
“I’m sure there should – and will – be something. Unfortunately we are a football club who have had to deal with tragic events sometimes and it tends to be whatever Liverpool do is respectful,” he told the PA news agency.
“There’s talk of a shirt number being retired , which could be a nice touch. It’s difficult to know exactly what to do.
“Whatever it is, it will be really sad when that happens because it is such a tragic event and devastating for his family.”
But it will be the league opener at home to Bournemouth on August 15 which will be the most difficult for fans.
“It’s going to be very emotional, of course it is. It’s not going to be easy for everyone involved,” added Hoare.
“I am sure Liverpool will get it right as they tend to do these things well – but it also puts it all into perspective.
“This is someone who is 28, dad of three and just got married You have conversations about these guys sometimes like they are just robots: ‘Drop him, buy him, sell him’.
“And these kind of things make you realise they are people, normal fellas.”