Luis Diaz scored his first goal in 10 games to place Liverpool at home for Wolves in the Premier League on Sunday in the Premier League – and former Reds defender Jamie Carragher said he hoped that the Scrappy opener would restore the Colombia International in full form .
Diaz bravely bundled the ball over the line after colleague attackers Mohamed Salah and Diogo Jota are combined, putting the red on course to move seven points above Arsenal at the top of the table.
“Liverpool gets a little luck,” Carragher told Sky Sports. “Maybe that goal can give him confidence to return to the Luis Diaz that we know.”
Luis Díaz scores his first goal of 2025 for Liverpool! ⚡️🔴 pic.twitter.com/ybennyjp01
– Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportspl) February 16, 2025
Salah shot a routine way in a fine to double the lead eight minutes before the break and hit Diaz by goalkeeper Jose Sa.
The Premier League top scorer took his count on 28 goals in all competitions in 2024/25 to increase the chances that wolves remain only two points above the relegation zone.
Mo Salah converts from the place to double the lead of Liverpool! 🎯 pic.twitter.com/OSP18APCTZ
– Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportspl) February 16, 2025
Liverpool vs Wolves: Salah Goal
After he had been beaten out of the FA Cup at second-class Plyryle and was held on Monday to a fiery 2-2 draw in Everton, Liverpool made a promising start against the side of the fourth soil.
The recurring Trent Alexander-Arnold was one of their players to reject presentable opportunities before Diaz Centrum-Back Emmanuel Aggbadou and Sa defeated a bouncing ball and took a blow to the hip while he saw his finish over the line.
– Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportspl) February 16, 2025
JOTA – In for the wounded Cody Gakpo – the movement began to lead Diaz past half the line, and a touch of Salah in the box was deflected in the path of Diaz by Toti Gomes.
Portugal International Jota threatened to score herself in the 32nd minute and hit a shot from a tight corner that was rotated after Sa’s cross of Andy Robertson had been sent from the left, sent after Alexander-Arnold had found his fellow Wideman with a cross field ball .
Luis Diaz Statistics
The previous goal of Diaz was a 5-0 Premier League win in West Ham on December 29, which brought the total of the 28-year-old this season to eight in all competitions.
Salah set up his last assist for the only goal of the game in Girona in the competition phase of the Champions League on December 10.
