Jamie Carragher singled out one Liverpool player for praise on social media after the 2-0 win over Arsenal in the FA Cup on Sunday evening.
The Reds’ victory was capped by a stoppage time goal from Luis Diaz, whose overall performance was instrumental in Jurgen Klopp’s side progressing to the fourth round of the competition.
Taking to X shortly after the final whistle at the Emirates Stadium, the Sky Sports pundit hailed the £50m Colombian’s display and believes he could be ‘pivotal’ for his team in Mo Salah’s absence.
Carragher posted: “Huge result, but what could be pivotal for @LFC it looks like the real Luis Diaz is back in these last two games”.
Winning today wasn’t my priority for the team, it was no injuries or replay, but once the game starts you can’t help but be desperate for the win!
Huge result, but what could be pivotal for @LFC it looks like the real Luis Diaz is back in these last two games 🔥 #ARSLIV
— Jamie Carragher (@Carra23) January 7, 2024
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After an energetic performance in the 4-2 win over Newcastle last week, Diaz backed it up with a goalscoring display as he came good while Salah is away at the Africa Cup of Nations.
As per Sofascore, the 26-year-old took 43 touches, won more duels than any of his teammates (seven), posted a 100% dribble success rate and had two shots on target, including his goal.
That strike was his sixth of the season and his first since the 4-0 win over LASK in the Europa League at the end of November (Transfermarkt); and having performed so impressively when switched to the right flank against Arsenal, he could well hold that position for the next few games.
Jurgen Klopp’s ingenious tactical tweak may have helped him to solve the right-winger conundrum while Salah is away at AFCON, and Diaz certainly took his opportunity to make a big statement today. As Carragher says, the Colombian could be a massive player for Liverpool over the next month or so.
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Diaz is a world class player, should be playing every game, unlike Nunez and Curtis Jones whom are useless,
Liverpool will not win any trophies if Nunez plays000
Nunez and Jones are useless. What you smoking bro.
Nunez and Jones are not useless. What you smoking bro.
Liverpool has to get red of Nunez because he did not do nothing for Liverpool, and
The team manager responsible for the wast of 70 million dollars lost for this kind of player, also the team manager is making money under the table for himself and get commission for junk players who buy for Liverpool. This policy should change
I disagree with your comment about Nunez,he is a class player and Klopp uses him like a battering ram against our oppositions defence and when you see the result of this mad man’s run at the defence they all just back off quickly and normally just stay that way,we just need Nunez to calm himself down before his final attempt to score,which I’ve got no doubt he will and then watch the goals rack up.
Nunez and Macallister were disappointing against Arsenal. Nunez is known now more for his silly misses then his goalscoring as a frontline striker. Macallister was strolling around and totally not on speed of the game. He shouldn’t have played. Play Jota and the two youngsters who came on instead.