Two Liverpool players see Luis Diaz's injury as opportunity

The bad news continues to haunt the Merseyside institution several weeks into the 2022-2023 season, because if it was not enough with that sea of injuries in midfield and that bad start in the Premier League that today has them as we say of the competition, now one of their few players who were really giving good results will have to stay away from the starting line-up due to a knee injury.

According to the twitter accounts of Pul Joyce and Pipe Sierra, the Colombia international attacker and Reds player will be out of the squad coached by Jürgen Klopp for at least six weeks, returning to action in December once the World Cup has found its winner in Qatar, missing a host of crucial games for both Liverpool and his national team.

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Although no player would wish ill on one of his teammates, this situation that puts the Colombian out of the starting line-up for almost two months means that some elements of the bench are close to their starting line-up or their continuity without being replaced on the pitch, benefiting to some extent Roberto Firmino who replaced Luis Diaz in the game against Arsenal and ended up influencing the scoreboard by putting that momentary two-goal draw.

Undoubtedly the Brazilian-born attacker would be one of the serious candidates to fill the position that his teammate left vacant for a few weeks, with Firmino having enough credit to be a reference point in the Reds attack after having already scored a few goals this season, almost always starting from the substitutes' bench, a place to which Jürgen Klopp relegated him after the arrival of Darwin Núñez.

Carvalho and Núñez will have to capitalise

If Luis Díaz is not at his best or if Klopp needs another type of game strategy for the final stages of his matches, the most recurrent change has been with midfielder Fábio Carvalho, who has played less attacking football, giving Liverpool the balance they may need in the final minutes of a match, trying to maintain the advantage they could have gained.