It was not Liverpool’s best debut of the season, much less for Luis Fernando Díaz Marulanda with the great mission in his second season of improving the numbers compared to the last tournament. This time, the preseason started, and the Premier League, unlike last semester that arrived at the beginning of 2022 with a contest already started.
Although Luis Díaz quickly scored a goal against Fulham to lead the victory, the linesman and the central referee annulled the goal due to a previous offside by Andrew Robertson, who appeared to enable the Colombian. The concern also happens because by adding a unit, he gave Tottenham, Arsenal, Bournemouth, Manchester City, among other clubs that did win, a chance to be profiled in the general table as candidates.
After the goal, Luis Díaz had a shot from the vertical, but the truth is that he could never find a way to break parity, least of all when Jürgen Klopp decided to replace him at 78 minutes, and in his place, Fábio Carvalho, former Fulham. Díaz has been cataloged as the perfect replacement for Sadio Mané after his departure to Bayern Munich, but for some it is a mistake to put him that way.
Jamie O’Hara spoke on TalkSPORTS about the ‘Reds’ game in general. “It was a bad result for Liverpool, you don’t draw against Fulham in the first game of the season if you have title aspirations. Núñez had to start for me. It is very disappointing on the part of Jürgen Klopp that decision, ”he began by saying.
On Darwin Núñez he noted, “Núñez came off the bench and wreaked havoc. If he starts the game, Liverpool will probably win that game handily. Fulham were excellent: they went after Liverpool. Liverpool did not appear in my opinion. I thought they were shocking in the first half and didn’t really get going. When Núñez came in, they changed a bit.”
Finally, he criticized those who say that Luis Díaz has to be the perfect replacement for Sadio Mané, “for me, Liverpool has lost Sadio Mané and I don’t think they have replaced him yet. I don’t think Luis Diaz will get the same numbers that Mane did, and that could be a mistake. I really think it will be a mistake by Liverpool.”
