Jurgen Klopp said preparing for this match was the most difficult task he has had to do in his managerial career, after Liverpool forward Luis Diaz was informed of his parents’ kidnapping while at the team hotel on Saturday evening.
Colombian forward Diaz left the squad with members of Liverpool’s staff taking care of him after he received news that his parents were taken by armed men in Barrancas, Colombia. His mother was found safe but his father was still missing on Sunday night
.And after Liverpool saw off Nottingham Forest 3-0, Klopp said: ‘The preparation was the most difficult I ever had in my life. Didn’t expect it, was not prepared for it. I don’t want to make the game bigger than it was but it was.
Most definitely we try to help Lucho with the fight we put in because obviously we want to help. We cannot really help so the only thing we can really do is fight for him and that’s what the boys did.
We heard late last night. Then we spoke to Lucho. He wanted to go home. Sent people with him, had people there to take care. There is part of his family there as well. It’s why they want to be together. It’s absolutely understandable.
