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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Sport
Paul Gorst

Luis Diaz is about to take next Liverpool step as Jurgen Klopp plan emerges

Timing, they say, can be everything in football, so Luis Diaz picked the ideal moment for his first goal of Liverpool's season on Monday night.

With the Reds toiling against a well-organised Crystal Palace side, whose smart counter-attacking approach saw them leading 1-0 through Wilfried Zaha's excellent finish, the sending off of Darwin Nunez just before the hour mark only worsened the home team's plight at Anfield.

Within four minutes of his new team-mate ending his own full Premier League debut by becoming the first player of Jurgen Klopp's tenure to be sent off for violent conduct, however, Diaz was attempting to wrestle the headlines away from his fellow South American.

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