Jurgen Klopp delivered an emotional tribute to the absent Luis Diaz after Liverpool's win over Nottingham Forest which the forward missed due to his parents' kidnapping.
Klopp called the afternoon the 'most difficult circumstance' he had ever worked in after the news broke overnight on Sunday that both Diaz's parents had been kidnapped in his native Colombia. The player's mother has since been released, but his father remains missing. Diaz had been due to start the game at Anfield and was replaced in the Liverpool line-up by Diogo Jota, who held up a 'Diaz 7' shirt after scoring the opener in their 3-0 win.
It was always my safe place, sometimes my hiding place. In this 90 minutes you are allowed to focus just on that - but it was absolutely impossible to do that today. 'It was clear we had to give the game extra sense, which was fighting for Lucho. I was not 100 per cent prepared for the shirt when they pulled it out, which was a really touching moment. 'We heard late last night about it. We spoke to Lucho to go home, sent people with him, and have people with him to take care of him.
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