Liverpool’s Diaz’s Father Released by Kidnappers
What Liverpool FC lost on the pitch against France’s Toulouse 3-2 , the Red’s Luis Diaz gained with the release of his father from kidnappers den last night.
Liverpool lost their Europa League to Toulouse in-lake was controversial manner.
To make matter worse for the Reds, a controversial video assistant referee (VAR) decision denied Liverpool a stoppage-time equaliser as they suffered a surprise Europa League loss to Toulouse.
Jarell Quansah’s goal to make it 3-3 in the seventh minute of added time was ruled out after Alexis Mac Allister was judged to have handled the ball.
Quansah slammed in from close range to spark wild Liverpool celebrations and furious protestations from Toulouse before Bulgarian referee Georgi Kabakov was called to the VAR screen – having already appeared to point to the centre circle.
The ball had bounced off Mac Allister’s chest into his upper arm much earlier in the move, which was ruled enough to disallow the goal.
Toulouse impressed for much of the match and went 2-0 up though strikes from Aron Donnum and Thijs Dallinga.
Liverpool pulled one back through a bizarre own goal from Cristian Casseres Jr, but Frank Magri restored the French side’s two-goal advantage.
Substitute Diogo Jota then scored for Liverpool with two minutes of normal time left and they thought they had earned a point with virtually the final kick of the match, before VAR’s intervention.
Colombia’s ELN guerrilla group on Thursday freed the father of Liverpool footballer Luis Diaz, 12 days after kidnapping him, according to live TV footage.
After being handed over by the rebels to a humanitarian mission, Luis Manuel Diaz arrived by helicopter in the northeastern city of Valledupar, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) from his hometown of Barrancas where he was abducted with his wife on October 28. She was rescued the same day.
Long live Freedom and Peace,” President Gustavo Petro wrote on X, formerly Twitter, after the released.
RESULTS
Ajax 0-2 Brighton
Toulouse 3-2 Liverpool
Maccabi 1-2 Villarreal
Rennes 3-1 Panathinaikos
Servette 2-1 Sheriff
Slavia 2-0 Roma
Qarabag 0-1 Leverkusen
