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Luis Diaz celebrates after scoring for Colombia during the FIFA World Cup South American qualifier in Argentina on June 10 2025(Image: ALEJANDRO PAGNI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\nLuis Diaz scored a wonder goal for Colombia as a number of Liverpool players were in international action<\/p>\n
10:39, 11 Jun 2025Updated 10:39, 11 Jun 2025<\/p>\n
Luis Diaz celebrates after scoring for Colombia during the FIFA World Cup South American qualifier in Argentina on June 10 2025(Image: ALEJANDRO PAGNI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Luis Diaz scored a wonder goal but the Liverpool winger was ultimately left frustrated on a busy evening of international football. Diaz cut in off the left wing and into the box beyond three defenders before finishing confidently to give Colombia a 24th-minute lead in their World Cup qualifier in Argentina on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n
But the visitors were pegged back late on in a 1-1 draw despite Argentina – for whom Alexis Mac Allister<\/a> has not been considered this round of qualifiers as he recovers from a minor injury – having Chelsea’s Enzo Fernandez sent off for a high boot.<\/p>\n “We’re really angry and frustrated with the result,” said Diaz.<\/a> “We played a good game, it was almost excellent, and we’re leaving frustrated.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Florian Wirtz transfer latest as Liverpool continue talks aimed at club record deal<\/a>READ MORE: Liverpool transfer state of play as Florian Wirtz deal nears conclusion and two fail to happen<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe had to come here looking for a result; we knew we could pull off a surprise here. We had good football and great players, but we have to keep improving our mentality.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to keep fine-tuning those little details, which are more important than the actual football itself.”<\/p>\n The result means Colombia still need one victory from their final two qualifiers in September to ensure automatic qualification for the World Cup.<\/p>\n In contrast, Alisson Becker<\/a> helped Brazil make it through to the tournament in the United States next year by keeping a clean sheet in a 1-0 home win over Paraguay.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Virgil van Dijk<\/a> was on target as Holland thrashed Malta 8-0 in their latest World Cup qualifier at his former club Groningen, with Cody Gakpo<\/a> and Ryan Gravenberch<\/a> substituted at half-time and new signing Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> unused on the bench.<\/p>\n “I said it yesterday in the treatment room that it has been a while since I scored, and that I have now done so here is really nice,” said van Dijk afterwards.<\/p>\n “I’ve played a lot of matches. It’s time for some rest now, then we’ll start again in four weeks.”<\/p>\n While speaking about playing alongside Frenkie de Jong and new Manchester City signing Tijjani Reijnders in the Holland midfield, Gravenberch also hinted at a possible change at Liverpool next season.<\/p>\n “Frenkie and Tijjani are great players,” he said. “We understand each other well and help each other in midfield. At Liverpool, I have a slightly more controlling role, but I hope that next season I can secretly attack a bit more.<\/p>\n “I am happy that I finally have a holiday, because it was a long season. It was also my best season so far, at the highest level, and I am super proud of that.”<\/p>\n Wataru Endo<\/a> played the full 90 minutes as an already-qualified Japan thumped Indonesia 6-0 at home in their final qualifying match.<\/p>\n A number of Liverpool<\/a> players were in friendly action across Europe. Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a> scored as Hungary won 2-1 in Azerbaijan, Conor Bradley<\/a> helped 10-man Northern Ireland beat Iceland 1-0 at home, Kostas Tsimikas<\/a> starred as Greece thumped Bulgaria 4-0 in Crete while Curtis Jones<\/a> came off the bench but couldn’t prevent a dreadful England losing 3-1 to Senegal at Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luis Diaz scored a wonder goal for Colombia as a number of Liverpool players were in international action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[763,8902,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-175475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-liverpool-fc","9":"tag-luis-diaz","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114664406505411275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}