Liverpool is going through a great time, they are in the fight for the Premier League and are only two points behind Manchester City who is the current leader, they are finalists of the FA Cup, where they will face Chelsea, they are semi-finalists of the Champions League, they will face the Spanish Villarreal and have already scored their first title of the season when they won the Carabao Cup against Chelsea. He stays alive in all the tournaments he has participated in this season.
The arrival of Luis Díaz in January was also important for the club to maintain its aspirations in the different competitions. The Colombian arrived in Liverpool, adapted and in a few days he began to be part of the starting eleven, being at this time part of the trident in attack that he forms together with Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah. In 17 matches he scored four goals and made three assists.
In the last match against Manchester United in the England classic, the Colombian was the initialist and ended up being one of the great figures in the match. He opened the score in the 5th minute of the match, at 68′ he attended Mané who scored the third of the night and at 70′ he left the field for Diogo Jota; Diaz came out in the middle of a huge cheer from Liverpool fans who were in Anfield.
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Gary Neville, Manchester United idol and legend of the England national team, referred to the Colombian's signing with Liverpool and highlighted his enormous potential. The former player on the podcast he published on Sky Sports, praised the Colombian and stated that he was impressed by the Colombian since the Carabao Cup final against Chelsea.
“The Carabao Cup final was the first time I saw the boy live. He is playing on the left side and I see it from the perspective of a right back, so I think I have a very good eye on what I would have liked and what I would not have liked. And I thought, 'Oh, my God. Which player is' (...) His tenacity, his skill, his pace, his struggle, his spirit, everything,” said Gary Neville in Sky Sports.
A few weeks before the agreement between the Colombian and Liverpool was closed, a protagonist came on the scene and changed everything, Antonio Conte's Tottenham. The Spurs wanted to get the signing of the Colombian footballer, which forced the managers of the 'Reds' to move to conclude the agreement with the Porto player at the time.
On this, Neville said, “Liverpool acted (to sign it in January) because the Spurs were probably going to intervene; they were probably going to wait until the end of the season. Now Liverpool has five strikers who are genuinely world class. All five are, honestly.”
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One of the major concerns in recent months among Liverpool fans and managers was the renewal of Egyptian Mohamed Salah, however, Neville believes that “Luis Diaz's state of form since signing for Liverpool in January has eased the pressure on Mohamed Salah's contract situation in Anfield.”
Liverpool's next match will be against Everton in the Premier League. The game will take place in Anfield on April 24 and Colombian Luis Díaz could reunite with his teammate from the Colombia National Team, Yerry Mina, who recently recovered from an injury and started against Leicester.
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