Welcome to Liverpool Luis Diaz

[sir roger]

Yep. He's been brilliant and hardly needed any bedding in. We need him to start banging in goals and notching up assists now.

[TheHowieLama]

Our best forward again yesterday, only behind TAA for MOTM.

 

Great analysis here on him - 

 

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12557036/luis-diaz-analysis-of-liverpool-winger-after-carabao-cup-win-over-chelsea

[manwiththestick]

He's started brilliantly and it's only a matter of time before he really kicks into gear and starts banging goals in.

 

[TheHowieLama]

The move where he got the ball in front of goal, one touch,  juggled it over the defenders head with his left and hit it on the full volley with his right was ridiculous. Unlucky to be blocked.

Plus the run when Zouma fouled him at the end - crikey!

[Aventus]

He's fast as fuck. 

 

Another pace goal merchant. 

[Scott_M]

I really like him but I don’t think I’ve seen him go outside a player yet.

[VladimirIlyich]

4 hours ago, Aventus said:

He's fast as fuck. 

 

Another pace goal merchant. 

They wont count.

[clockspeed]

On 03/03/2022 at 17:01, sir roger said:

Yep. He's been brilliant and hardly needed any bedding in. We need him to start banging in goals and notching up assists now.

Like the new kid at school he is trying too hard to fit in . In saying that some of his passing to mo and Mane has been exquisite.  However he needs to take on more chances himself now.

[an tha]

I like the lad and think he is going to be good for us...only slight concern to date is his finishing. Hopefully he will settle down on that front and start hitting the back of the net regularly.

[3 Stacks]

He's not getting the opportunities in the box that Salah, Mané and Jota are able to find and manufacture. That's what he needs to improve, but it's pretty much the only thing. A lot of his shots are outside the box. Too many. It's not really about the finishing, it's getting in better areas.

[an tha]

48 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

He's not getting the opportunities in the box that Salah, Mané and Jota are able to find and manufacture. That's what he needs to improve, but it's pretty much the only thing. A lot of his shots are outside the box. Too many. It's not really about the finishing, it's getting in better areas.

There is an element of that but he has been in some good positions and failed to find net....its a minor 'gripe' and its an admittedly small sample.

 

I seem to recall Suarez was less than efficient early in his time with us and he turned out to be half decent didn't he.

[Supremolad]

11 hours ago, Scott_M said:

I really like him but I don’t think I’ve seen him go outside a player yet.

Yep. Would like him to beat his man on the outside occasionally. It would make him more unpredictable. 

 

He is an exciting talent and a threat. But we do need to see some more end product between now and end of the season. 1 goal in 6 starts isn't earth shattering. Although to be fair, he has been unlucky with a few attempts.

[3 Stacks]

6 hours ago, an tha said:

There is an element of that but he has been in some good positions and failed to find net....its a minor 'gripe' and its an admittedly small sample.

 

I seem to recall Suarez was less than efficient early in his time with us and he turned out to be half decent didn't he.

He's actually statistically shooting exactly as much as Salah per game in the Premier League thus far, which is a shit load. It's interesting, it seems like he basically has a green light. I think the difference is simply that he needs to get in better areas.

 

Salah and most attackers are at their best when they shoot in the box. Salah is most shit and frustrating when he's taking a bunch of pot shots. Diaz thus far is kind of doing that, which is unfortunate because every other part of his game has been world class.

[Bob]

I think there’s still an obvious need to develop understanding together which will lead to better chances coming in due course.

 

he roams away from the left wing way more than Mane does, or Salah does on the left, which gives us interesting options but makes it a bit hard to know where he’s going to be, what run he’s going to make off you, and how to find him.

 

I can’t remember how quickly Jota settled in, cause it feels now like he’s always been here now and my memory is crap, but as well as Diaz has played individually since joining, it’s clear he’ll be way more of a threat once he’s settled into the system and developed that understanding with his teammates.

 

it also doesn’t help that the striker during this time has been Mane, who doesn’t do for Diaz what Bobby (and to a lesser degree Jota) does to drop in and knit the play together.

 

I don’t think we could reasonably ask for too much more from him this far, but there’s more to come for sure.

[an tha]

7 hours ago, 3 Stacks said:

He's actually statistically shooting exactly as much as Salah per game in the Premier League thus far, which is a shit load. It's interesting, it seems like he basically has a green light. I think the difference is simply that he needs to get in better areas.

 

Salah and most attackers are at their best when they shoot in the box. Salah is most shit and frustrating when he's taking a bunch of pot shots. Diaz thus far is kind of doing that, which is unfortunate because every other part of his game has been world class.

As we said it is early, a small sample and a very minor gripe.

 

Just feels so far he has not yet shown his best when it comes to getting in great positions to score/burying them when does - but its certainly no big deal, he's only going to get better once he gets more understanding of how we play and more used to playing with the team.

 

 

[Josef Svejk]

Very early days. But he looks awesome at times, especially at full tilt. Great work rate, too.

 

There's a possibility that he may become our most exciting forward without the end product / statistical output of Salah, Mane, and Jota. It's fucking hard to keep buying players who produce those numbers, though - especially in wide positions... 

[stringvest]

the signs are encouraging, but I'm not going overboard just yet.  

[Scott_M]

He’s going to absolutely destroy Kyle Walker at the Emptyhad, the brain dead fuck won’t know what’s hit him. 

[SlugTrail]

17 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

They wont count if you're a bitter know nothing prick.

Too true 

[Aventus]

I'm interested to see what he'd be like in the middle doing Bobby's role. 

 

From what I've seen Luis does like to drift inside so he is in that position a lot anyway, and he loves grafting and pressing from the front.

[Pureblood]

7 hours ago, stringvest said:

the signs are encouraging, but I'm not going overboard just yet.  

Yeah, I'd give it a few more games before you turn on him. 

[KMD7]

Brilliant player.

[TheHowieLama]

1 minute ago, KMD7 said:

Brilliant player.

I don't think you can leave him out at the weekend. Same with Jota.

[KMD7]

Just now, TheHowieLama said:

I don't think you can leave him out at the weekend. Same with Jota.

I think he'll start. I don't think Jota will though unless Mane is rested. Mo will probably still get the nod. 

[Tj hooker]

Brilliant signing this lad the proper dogs bollocks.