Luis Díaz has a new opportunity to once again show all his ability at Liverpool, in a key match, in the first leg of the semi-final of the Champions League, against Villarreal of Spain, at Anfield (2 pm ESPN TV).
The Colombian has not slowed down a second since his arrival at the Reds. Whether starting or entering from the substitute bench, Díaz always generates good comments, for his plays, his luxuries, his assists and even his goals. Díaz has already scored a goal with Liverpool in this Champions League, and it was in the quarter-final series against Benfica from Portugal. But it goes for more.
Diaz, keep shining
Over the weekend, Díaz was a substitute and came on in the 60th minute of the game against Everton, in which he made an assist and a luxurious play that drew all the applause, by lowering the ball with his leg crossed from behind. DT Jürgen Klopp has given him a lot of prominence in European competition, so it is possible that today he will be one of his attack weapons to challenge the Spanish club.
“We are going to play against a very difficult rival, they have shown it in this Champions League, we are going to have to fight,” Klopp warned yesterday at the previous press conference.
Villarreal’s coach, Unai Emery, joined in the praise for Liverpool and the Colombian. “Liverpool now has an updated and improved version, it finds certain excellences in some players, it is a team that runs very well into space, with a high intensity to recover the ball and now has players who have a combinative level, it is something that they have accumulated with Thiago, with Mané more inside and with the arrival of Luis Díaz, who gives them dribbling and presence on the inside at a combinative level“, said.
The English team arrives at the match in their best form and as the only team with a chance of completing the League-Champions-Cup triplet, having already won the Carabao Cup. Second in the English championship, one point behind the leader, Manchester City , Liverpool also eliminated the Citizens in the semi-finals of the FA Cup. Now, Klopp’s team is looking to secure a place in another final to try to repeat their success from 2019, when they last lifted the Orejona.
The English team will try to assert the great offensive power of its attacking men, three of whom are among the top five scorers in the English championship, a ranking led by Egyptian Mohamed Salah with 22 goals. He is also the fourth scorer in the Champions League with eight.
Villarreal seeks feat
Executioner of Juve in the round of 16 and of Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals with a goal over the bell by Samu Chukwueze, Villarreal aspires to continue that positive streak against the English.
“The surprise factor decreases”, admitted Emery, for whom some statements from his network counterpart Jürgen Klopp “come with a lot of intelligence that they know the team, that they respect you and they know that we are here because we have made two great qualifiers against two great teams ”.
The Yellow Submarine goes to Anfield with some absences. “Pino is going to be short, she had an elongation that was dragging. Gerard is progressing well, he is working in the field, but for tomorrow he will be early so that he can be fit, and (Francis) Coquelin has worked normally”, explained Emery. Coquelin had been dragging some discomfort that led the DT to leave him out in the last two games against Getafe and Valencia.
Villarreal is again measured against a Liverpool that already eliminated it in the semifinals of the Europa League in 2016, under the orders of Jürgen Klopp himself, who returns to receive the Spanish.
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