Liverpool manager Arne Slot has described Luis Diaz as an exceptional player.
He made this known after Diaz grabbed an hat-trick in Liverpool’s 4-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen in Tuesday’s Champions League.
In a chat with the club’s website, the Dutch tactician stated that Diaz has become popular among the fans at Anfied.
“Not only the people in Colombia like and love Lucho, the fans of Liverpool love him a lot as well. I heard many times the fans singing his song. And the manager likes him a lot as well – I don’t love him but I like him a lot!
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“He’s played many, many games but I just said something about Darwin Nunez: in the Premier League and the Champions League, you have to play so many games at the highest level and it’s not always possible for every player to play every game, especially in certain positions.
“So, if you are a centre-back, normally you run not as much as a left-winger or a full-back or a midfielder – and especially our wingers. But because you all look at the goals Lucho scored and the goals Cody scored, I also look at the fact how hard they track back, how much they have to defend. I ask a lot from them, so that’s why sometimes we have to rotate them. But Lucho, for me, is a starter. And I said this three days ago about Cody as well – he’s, for me, a starter also.”
