Luis Díaz is in the last days of a season full of demands, which has resolved, happily, with the title of the Premier League.
The Guajiro has signed his best season dressed in red and has been definitive to preserve the advantage of his during the last year in the best league in the world. After the elimination in the FA Cup and the Champions League and losing the Carabao Cup final, the team entered a downturn that only he saved. That impulse was overwhelmed.
Comparison with Salah: So close, so far
Although the exclusive figure of the Premier champion team is Mohamed Salah, it must be said that Díaz gave the fight.
Yes, it is true that the comparison can be hateful: the Egyptian scored 33 goals and gave 23 assists, while the Guajiro scored 16 times and gave 5 assists. But there are a couple of chapters in which it was imposed.
The first was his ability to open the scoreboard: it was the one that most times marked the first goal for Liverpool, a total of 8 times in 47 games, 7 by Premier, according to Besoccer data. Salah did it 6 times in 49 games.
Throughout the Premier League he took the fifth place in this area behind Chris Wood of Nottingham (9), Bryan Mbeumo del Brentford (8), Raúl Jiménez del Fulham (7) and Nicolas Jackson of Chelsea (7).
But he was also the only one who marked Triplet in Champions League, that November 5 last year, when in the group stage he looked. It was his debut as number 9, a position that the coach Arne Slot created.
In the end, the beneficiary is the club because between Salah and Dïaz they scored 54 percent of the 131 goals shouted by Liverpool. This Sunday in front of Arsenal, in the second to last commitment of the season.
