Liverpool are to permanently retire the number 20 worn by Portuguese international Diogo Jota, after his death in a car crash in Spain last week, the Premier League champions announced on Friday.

Wolves manager Vitor Pereira, accompanied by his team, laid flowers and paused to remember the popular player outside Molineux stadium on Thursday afternoon. There have been numerous tributes from fans to the Portuguese forward, with flowers, shirts and other memorabilia left around the Billy Wright statue on Waterloo Road.

After taking the wicket of Jamie Smith on Day 2 of the ongoing third Test against England at Lords on Friday, Mohammed Siraj honoured the late Diogo Jota after the Liverpool and Portugal footballer passed away in a fatal car crash last Thursday.

Liverpool forward Diogo Jota was driving and likely speeding when his car crashed in Spain on Thursday, killing him and his younger brother, according to a preliminary police investigation.