Luis Diaz has started the season well - but can he keep up his goalscoring and become Liverpool's successor to Sadio Mane
It was a moment that may have briefly taken Liverpool supporters back to the heady days of 2019 or 2020. A long, angled pass out of defence to a force breaking with pace from the left hand side. One touch to control, then around the goalkeeper without ever breaking stride.For Luis Diaz against Bournemouth in 2024, see any number of Sadio Mane goals in the aforementioned years. Norwich away springs to mind, or Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena.
But underdelivered? Perhaps. In all his time at Liverpool he's scored a grand total of 29 goals. Not bad, but not the heights hit by his predecessor and he's never struck more than 10 Premier League goals in either of his full campaigns with the Reds so far. And while Mane's assist tally was always respectable, his most fruitful campaign in terms of goals saw him develop a particular ruthless streak, with just four assists to his name for the 26 goals his netted in all competitions in 2018/19.
Indeed, Diaz only need to look at his team-mate Mohamed Salah for the standards set by ruthless goalscorers and it was no doubt competition with the Egyptian that saw Mane's own returns improve once he arrived at the club in 2017. "I think almost every manager took Liverpool as an example of how to work without the ball. The energy they put in, in all these years with Jurgen, I think that’s what you still see and I am really happy with us. So, for me, I don’t see any change. If you see any differently then that’s possible because you saw more games than me, but the way I looked at all the Liverpool players and the way they’ve played in recent years, they were always very aggressive and that’s what still is.
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