{"id":7796,"date":"2026-06-09T10:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=7796"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:02:55","slug":"liverpools-greatest-no-76-luis-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=7796","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s Greatest &#8211; No.76: Luis Diaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Years: <\/strong>2022-2025<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Appearances: <\/strong>148<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Goals: <\/strong>41<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Trophies: <\/strong>League Cup (2022, 2024), FA Cup (2022), Premier League (2024-25)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Luis Diaz made a dazzling impact after arriving at Liverpool and left as a Premier League champion.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian forward was a January 2022 acquisition from FC Porto and injected fresh trickery, explosive pace and hard work into a quadruple attempt that season.<\/p>\n<p>Instantly settling into <strong>Jurgen Klopp<\/strong>\u2019s attack, he started all three finals as the Reds won the League Cup and FA Cup but were beaten in the Champions League showpiece, alongside finishing runners-up in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz\u2019s momentum at Anfield was halted when he lost six months to serious injury during 2022-23, but he would recover to play 101 games over the course of the two seasons that followed.<\/p>\n<p>There were 13 goals from \u2018Lucho\u2019 across 2023-24 as Liverpool collected another League Cup, Diaz playing every minute of the final against Chelsea in which a depleted Reds squad claimed victory in extra-time.<\/p>\n<p>He upped that figure to 17 during what would prove to his final campaign with the club \u2013 and a championship-winning one too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years: 2022-2025 Appearances: 148 Goals: 41 Trophies: League Cup (2022, 2024), FA Cup (2022), Premier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}