Alisson was on the opposite side of the result but had a message for his Liverpool team-mate. “He is a friend, he suffered a lot these days,” the goalkeeper said. “This is beyond football, he deserves it.”
Armed men on motorcycles kidnapped Diaz’s parents from a petrol station in the town of Barrancas last month. His mother was rescued within hours by police, but his father continued to be held captive before being released.
Diaz’s dad explained that he had “almost 12 days without sleep” and had to endure “a lot of quite difficult horseback riding, lots of mountains, rain” while being held after his abduction.
