Jurgen Klopp has found Liverpool game-changer ready to explode this season
When Luis Diaz raced through on goal in added time at Molineux on Saturday, only Jose Sa's fingertips prevented the Colombian from rounding off a scintillating second-half performance in the West Midlands.
By that time, Liverpool had overcome their latest dose of Premier League adversity as Cody Gakpo, Andy Robertson and Harvey Elliott all found the back of the net to fire the Reds back to the top of the table, albeit briefly, for the first time since May 2022.
As one of four South American players to have only returned to Merseyside in the early hours of Thursday, Diaz was effectively afforded the morning off in the Black Country as Liverpool lined up with Diogo Jota, Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah in the attack.
Arriving as a half-time substitute, though, the Colombian's introduction was absolutely worth the wait as he immediately provided an uplift to a side that had lethargically gone through the motions during an abject first-half display.
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And within 90 seconds of the restart, Diaz was nearly wheeling away in celebration as explosively stole a yard on Craig Dawson to head Robertson's cross just wide of the near post. Apart from a flurry of chances for Salah and Dominik Szoboszlai before the break, it was the closest Jurgen Klopp's side had come to drawing level.
Minutes later and it was his creation of space in a central area that led to Gakpo restoring parity in the West Midlands as the Colobian's ball trickled through to Jota, who later found Salah on the right-hand side of the box. There the Egyptian drilled his effort across the box for the Dutch to prod
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