Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp described the build-up to Sunday's Premier League win over Nottingham Forest “the most difficult I've ever had in my life”. Forward Luis Diaz returned home to Colombia ahead of the 3-0 victory at Anfield after it emerged that his parents had been kidnapped by armed men in South America. The player's mother, Cilenis Marulanda, was found in Barrancas on Saturday but there is a major military and police search under way for his father Luis Manuel Diaz, who remains missing. “The game preparation was the most difficult I've ever had in my life. We spoke to Luis, he wanted to go home … Then we got the news with his mum, which is fantastic, and since then nothing really.

Source: BBC October 30, 2023 23:05 UTC