Luis Diaz’s return is big for Jurgen Klopp – the Colombian has been the biggest loser from Liverpool’s dreadful season.
Six months after damaging knee ligaments at Arsenal, the 26-year-old is expected to make his return to action for the Reds against Leeds on Monday.
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Of all the losers from Liverpool’s quite dreadful season, Luis Diaz has been perhaps the biggest. When the Colombian went down with a knee injury at Arsenal in October, the Reds were still a team with a big reputation and lofty ambitions. Sure, they’d made a slow start to the campaign, but that was only a temporary blip, right?
Once they came through it they’d be back at the top of the Premier League, and back competing for trophies, right? Right?
Not quite. For as Diaz prepares to make his long-awaited, and significantly-delayed, comeback against Leeds United on Monday night, he returns to a team, a club, that is almost unrecognisable from the one he left behind in the autumn.
Good luck then, Luis. Diaz is known as an upbeat, infectious personality – “water in the desert,” as assistant manager Pep Lijnders memorably called him – and he’ll need all the positive energy he can muster if he is to breathe some life, belatedly, into a team that has collapsed without him.
