“Luis Diaz’s recovery brings hope to Liverpool’s quest for top four finish in the Premier League”

What once seemed like another day at the office now turns out to be a daunting task. And the bad news is that it’s not over yet.

Liverpool, with Luis Díaz happily recovered and at his best, still has four more challenges to meet the goal of finishing in one of the top four places in the Premier League table, which will earn him the right to play in the group stage of the Champions League. After the ordeal that the season has been, it sounds like little but it is a lot.

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The good news is that the recovery of the Colombian winger is a certainty and comes as additional encouragement in this final stretch. In fact, in the recent 1-0 win against Fulham, the Liverpool Echo gave him 8 points, saying “He had a shot wide and was a real threat every time he pushed down the left or from deep. Another good showing. . Outstanding”.
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The x-ray of the game, in which he played 65 minutes but did not have many clear options, ended like this:

And what comes next for Díaz? Liverpool, in fifth place with 59 points and for now with a place in the Europa League, has a calendar with four definitive appointments:
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Liverpool vs Brentford / Saturday May 6 / 11:30 am
​Leicester vs Liverpool / 15 de mayo / 2:00 p.m.
Liverpool v Aston Villa / May 20 / 9:00 am
​Southampton vs Liverpool / 28 de mayo / 10:30 a.m.

It must be said that the only threatening rival, who is 5 points away in seventh place, is Jhon Jader Durán’s Aston Villa: Brentford is ninth with 50 points, Leicester is 16th (30 points) and Southampton is the safe relegation of the season, in last place with 24 points.
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For Liverpool it should be a kind ending, ideally with plenty of victories as it will be local against Unai Emery’s men, and waiting for missteps from Manchester United (fourth, 63) and Tottenham (sixth, 54). As Klopp explained, the symptoms of recovery from the vertigo and precision game that made him the protagonist in the previous season seem to have returned.
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For Díaz it is a golden opportunity to end the year hopefully scoring more goals, adding minutes and working hard on the final shot, the pending issue since his arrival at the club, in January 2022. The knee injury is past. Now for him there are four chances to let himself be loved by football, after six months of a tough battle that was recovery, longing to return to the field.