{"id":8971,"date":"2022-02-09T15:13:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T20:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/09\/luis-diaz-reflects-on-early-days-at-liverpool-as-leicester-city-clash-looms\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T15:13:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T20:13:55","slug":"luis-diaz-reflects-on-early-days-at-liverpool-as-leicester-city-clash-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/09\/luis-diaz-reflects-on-early-days-at-liverpool-as-leicester-city-clash-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis D\u00edaz reflects on early days at Liverpool as Leicester City clash looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Liverpool is set to clash with Brendan Rodgers\u2019 foundering Leicester City at Anfield tomorrow evening, with the anticipated Premier League debut of January signing Luis D\u00edaz as one of the key talking points on Merseyside.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz has already made his debut for the Reds in a 32-minute cameo against Cardiff when Liverpool ran out 3-1 winners against the Championship outfit and now looks primed for a full debut for his new employers against the Foxes given that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/jurgen-klopp-confirms-jordan-henderson-issue-and-reveals-when-sadio-mane-is-expected-to-return-to-liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sadio Man\u00e9 is still unavailable<\/a> after helping Senegal lift their first-ever African Cup of Nations trophy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Luis Diaz\u2019s first impressions on Liverpool team emerge ahead of Premier League debut<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1iWdbKYDWP\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/1iWdbKYDWP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fOa1ujXOLR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/fOa1ujXOLR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mirror Football (@MirrorFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MirrorFootball\/status\/1491443080272224256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And the 25-year-old Colombian international has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/luis-diaz-liverpool-teammates-impression-26183886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made known his initial impressions of the club<\/a> and his new teammates before his official introduction to the Premier League, with his father \u2013 Luis Manuel D\u00edaz \u2013 shedding light on the players\u2019 opinion when speaking with Colombian radio outlet Bluradio: \u201cAfter the first game, he told me that it was a team that works hard, complete, in which he will feel comfortable and will have the chance to play with high-performance players.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>J\u00fcrgen Klopp &amp; Harvey Elliot left excited by D\u00edaz<\/h2>\n<p>Luis D\u00edaz was not the only one left impressed during the early days after his arrival from Portuguese giants FC Porto, with Reds starlet Harvey Elliot giving a glaring report on the Colombian in the wake of the weekend FA Cup triumph: \u201cYou can see that he\u2019s got exceptional talent and he\u2019s a top guy as well. We\u2019re all around him, supporting him and we\u2019re all there if he needs. I\u2019m sure he will show what he\u2019s about, he showed glimpses today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo come on next to him was a proud moment for myself as well because he\u2019s, in my opinion, a world-class player. He\u2019s only going to get better playing for Liverpool, playing in front of these fans. o come on next to him was a proud moment for myself as well because he\u2019s, in my opinion, a world-class player. He\u2019s only going to get better playing for Liverpool, playing in front of these fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1659512\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1659512\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1659512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1369159344-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Luis D\u00edaz reflects on early days at Liverpool in run-up to Premier League debut\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1369159344-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1369159344-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1369159344-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1369159344-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1369159344-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1369159344-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1369159344-910x607.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1659512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND \u2013 FEBRUARY 06: Luis Diaz of Liverpool applauds the supporters following the Emirates FA Cup Fourth Round match between Liverpool and Cardiff City at Anfield on February 06, 2022 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Chris Brunskill\/Fantasista\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Liverpool boss J\u00fcrgen Klopp spoke similarly about D\u00edaz when he reflected on the players\u2019 happiness and work ethic in training while judging his contributions in his FA Cup cameo to be a harbinger of things to come.<\/p>\n<p>It looks just about nailed-on that D\u00edaz will make his full league debut against Leicester and many Reds faithful will undoubtedly hope that it will be one for the highlight reels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool is set to clash with Brendan Rodgers\u2019 foundering Leicester City at Anfield tomorrow evening, with the anticipated Premier League debut of January signing Luis D\u00edaz as one of the key talking points on Merseyside. D\u00edaz has already made his debut for the Reds in a 32-minute cameo against Cardiff when Liverpool ran out 3-1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}