Diaz visits Goodison Park: His good memory in the Merseyside derby

A great game will open the sixth day of the Premier League. Liverpool visits Everton in a new edition of the Merseyside derby this Saturday, September 3 starting at 6:30 am (Colombian time), a commitment in which Luis Díaz is expected to be a starter, as has been happening since the auction of the previous campaign and so far this season.

The summer transfer market closed for Liverpool with the addition of Arthur, who arrived on loan from Juventus and could make his debut immediately in the face of Jürgen Klopp’s casualties in midfield, while for Everton he was more active, since on the last day he closed the signings of James Garner, Neal Maupay and Idrissa Gana Gueye, so there could be several new faces to be seen this Saturday at Goodison Park.

To continue on a streak so as not to move away from the top

The season started well for the Reds with the Community Shield title after beating Manchester City 3-1, but then had a discreet start to the Premier League which included two come-from-behind draws against Fulham at Craven Cottage (2-2) and Crystal Palace at Anfield (1-1) and a 2-1 loss to Manchester United at Old Trafford.

The recovery came before one of the newly promoted and in style. With Diaz’s double included, Liverpool thrashed Bournemouth 9-0, a result that left Jefferson Lerma without a coach, and in the middle of the week achieved an agonizing 2-1 comeback over Newcastle United thanks to Fabio Carvalho’s goal in the last minute.

There are already three goals for the Colombian so far this season, in which Liverpool is sixth in the Premier League with 8 points, 7 behind the leader Arsenal, so he needs the win at Goodison Park not to move away from the top and recover what was transferred in the first days. Also, look out of the corner of your eye next week, as the Champions League group stage kicks off by visiting Napoli at the Diego Maradona.

A good memory at the Merseyside derby

The last precedent of this derby ended 2-0 in favor of the Reds with good memories for Díaz, since he entered the 60th minute of the commitment instead of Sadio Mané and gave another dynamic to Liverpool’s attackwho two minutes later opened the scoring through Andrew Robertson and near the end there was an acrobatic definition from the Colombian that became an assist for Divock Origi.

Liverpool hope to extend the recent supremacy over Everton, because in the last ten years, the Toffees won the derby only once and that was with a Colombian on the pitch. In February of the previous year, they won 0-2 at Anfield. thanks to annotations by Richarlison and Sigurdsson, match in which James Rodríguez spent 62 minutes on the court.

You have to go back to 2010 to find Everton’s last home win in the Merseyside derby. In October of that year he won 2-0 with goals from Tim Cahill and Mikel Arteta.