Van Dijk says Liverpool using Diaz 'shock' as 'motivation' as rebel group want 'security guarantees'

Virgil van Dijk specifies Liverpool’s gamers have earned a “hazard-free township” for Luis Diaz in the days since his papa was kidnapped in Colombia.

The 26-year-worn came off the church bench in the 83rd min of the group’s 1-1 draw via Luton on Sunday and racked upwards a dramatic equaliser deep proper into added time.

It was his initially elegance since his papa, Luis Manuel Diaz, was abducted in the stretch of Barrancas on October 28.

The striker was absent for Liverpool’s success over Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth but marked a phenomenal rejoinder to feedback by pioneering in Harvey Elliott’s cross five minutes proper into blockage time at Kenilworth Thoroughfare.

The group guilty for the kidnapping, the Nationwide Liberation Unrelenting, has administered queries for “coverage makes certain” in fete for his papa’s unleash.

Obeying the gallery against Luton, Van Dijk said: “He’s been coaching via us, deciphering that it’s so fresh, what’s going on. He feels like being via us is a hazard-free township, so it assists him.

“We’re here for him. We said it last week, it’s an wholly vicious instance. Hopefully there will be a establishment. We’ll be here for him and every man need to prove him. Hopefully it will be sifted as shortly as plausible.”

Liverpool had filtered methodology to loss to a stun defeat in the past Diaz’s late treatment, falling behind 10 minutes from time to a impartial by Luton substitute Tahith Chong.

“He’s still let down since he correspondingly pined to win,” said Van Dijk. “There’s the majority of sensations in his head. It need to have been (led to to be) that he need to have racked upwards. I’m glad for him, but via any type of luck we can lug out application his papa previously as shortly as plausible.

“You can’t picture it, that’s the creepy portion. The singular point we can execute is hope they will position him hazard-free and definite and they lug out application him previously to his family.

“When it arised it was a stun to everyone. We spoke about it and it need to impart us added inspiration. He doesn’t want us to rot from what he’s going via, he desires us to swipe fuel from it.”

In front of a raucous abode prove, the vacationers struggled to go against down Luton for long periods as they sought the win that would certainly have placed them 2nd in the Premier League.

Darwin Nunez in specific was guilty of uneconomical ending up once chances came, striking the bar in the initially fifty percent in the past conspiring to balloon an project over from 3 backyards out after the go against.

“I don’t reckon it was down to the ambiance,” said Van Dijk. “We had the initially chance after fifty percent-an-hour. Rating that one and it’s a perfectly unalike gallery.

“We didn’t and then they care one practice. Their results here this period have been severely little margins. That’s down to how they dabble, they protect portable and resilient.

“I venerate that, but we could have administered it a heap simpler.”

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