If there is a Liverpool player who is becoming fashionable, it is the Colombian striker Luis Díaz, signed in the January market and who on Tuesday, in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Benfica, was a hero, with a goal and an assist (1-3). Precisely Díaz already knows what it is to score a goal against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City and besides dream. This Sunday, City-Liverpool decisive for the Premier.
It was in the 2020-21 Champions League, specifically on October 21, 2020, when at Etihad Díaz he left four City players to put his then teams, Porto, ahead. In the end, Do Dragao’s team fell (3-1)
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It was an electrifying diagonal that the Colombian forward carried out in the 14th minute. Luis Díaz received the ball a few meters from the center line, on the left, and accelerated. Up to four rivals could not stop him.
Then today’s Liverpool attacker entered the area from the right and hit a cross shot that Ederson, City goalkeeper, could not stop. But Guardiola’s men turned the game around with goals from Kun Agüero (20′), Ilkay Gündogan (65′) and today’s Barcelona player Ferran Torres (73′).
Luis Díaz has adapted very quickly to Liverpool and the Premier. Jürgen Klopp, his coach, is delighted with him. “Luis Díaz is a top player, it’s a joy to work with him,” said the coach of the Anfield team. The Colombian has two goals in the Premier and one in the Champions League.