Jurgen Klopp said it was impossible to take Luis Diaz’s football seriously on Sunday after his parents were kidnapped
Colombia the day before.On Saturday, Colombian authorities confirmed that Diaz’s parents had been taken hostage and that although her mother had been released, her father remained under the control of his captors. Liverpool won 3-0 against Nottingham Forest at Anfield,
with Diogo Jota scoring the opener and Luis Diaz lifting his shirt in tribute to his team-mate. It was a good day on the pitch for United, with Darwin Nunes and Mohamed Salah completing the scoring, but Klopp said the build-up to the match had been more difficult than Diaz’s struggles. “I’ve never had a problem like this, it’s always been a
safe place for me, but [today] it wasn’t possible, so I had to give the game a boost. It was a fight with Lucho.”The preparation was the hardest in my life. I didn’t expect it and I couldn’t have
prepared for it. We will do our best to help Lucho as much as possible. All we can do is fight for it. Jota Diaz said of the terrible situation his family went through: “It’s something we couldn’t imagine if we hadn’t been through the same situation.”We are with him and we can tell him that everything will be fine in the end. “It’s always
good to score a goal and it’s very important for me, especially today for Lucho. I felt I would score. I played instead. We are all with him and it was an important moment for both him and me. We’re all with him and I think this is a great opportunity to show him…
