Andy Robertson reveals moment in Luis Diaz’s first training session that told him he would fit in at Liverpool

Andy Robertson has revealed his first impressions of Luis Diaz following the Colombian forward’s Premier League debut against Leicester. Liverpool beat Brendan Rodgers’ side 2-0 at Anfield on Thursday evening, with two goals from Diogo Jota securing a win which took the Reds to within nine points of Manchester City at the top of the table. Diaz made his first start for his new club and while he didn’t get on the scoresheet, he gave an energetic performance.

Ad/> Speaking to BT Sport afterwards, Robertson suggested that he knew Diaz would fit in at the club when he first saw him in action at Liverpool’s Kirkby training base. Premier LeagueHenderson and Robertson add to Liverpool injury woes16/11/2020 AT 15:37 “His first training session, when I saw him flying about I thought: ‘Yeah, he’ll be OK here!’" he said. “We just need to let him bed in.

He’s still got the language to hopefully pick up and the way we play and everything, but for his first start I thought he was excellent today. Flying into tackles and stuff, that’s one way to get the crowd to love you straight away and I think they really took to him.” Jurgen Klopp was also full of praise for Diaz, lauding his intelligence. Asked whether his new signing looked at home in a Liverpool shirt already, Klopp said: “That’s exactly the impression he made in training and that’s why we thought: ‘Come on, let’s give it a try'.

“There were a lot of things when we saw him playing for Porto where we thought: ‘Yes, that’s exactly what we want him to do as well'. On top of that, he seems to be a really smart football boy, [he] has obviously watched Liverpool quite a lot. /> “We didn’t overload new players with information in the first week and tell them everything we want them to