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.