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'The right person in the stadium scored'
Luton 1-1 Liverpool
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Video caption: Jurgen Klopp on Luis Diaz's late equaliser for Liverpool against Luton"The right person in the stadium scored the equaliser and that was wonderful," said Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp.
"We wait desperately for news from Colombia. The information he gets are rather positive but it is not done - the one information we didn't get yet.
"He decided he wants to be around us again because he needs that distraction because he can't do anything. The only lift you can get in this moment is the real news."
Report - Diaz grabs late and emotional Liverpool equaliser
Luton 1-1 Liverpool
Luis Diaz came off the bench to salvage a point for Liverpool with a stoppage-time goal at Luton in his first match since his parents were kidnapped in Colombia.
Diaz's father remains missing, and the forward lifted his shirt to show a message of "freedom for papa" after heading in Harvey Elliott's cross five minutes into added time.
He later issued a statement calling for those holding his father to release him "immediately".
The 26-year-old former Porto player had last featured in a Liverpool squad 10 days ago, but manager Jurgen Klopp said before this match that Diaz "wanted to be part of the team".
His goal was a poignant and remarkable conclusion to a contest in which Luton had appeared on course for a deserved first league win of the season at Kenilworth Road and a first victory over the Reds since 1991.
Liverpool's Diaz begs for father's release
Luton 1-1 Liverpool
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"Every second, every minute our anxiety grows," Luis Diaz, 26, as he begged for his father's kidnappers to free him immediately and "end this painful wait" in a statement released shortly after scoring a late equaliser for Liverpool at Luton on Sunday.
"My mother, my brothers and I are desperate, anxious and have no words to describe what we are feeling. This suffering will only end when we have him home with us.
"I beg that they free him immediately, respecting his integrity and ending this painful wait. In the name of love and compassion we ask they reconsider their actions and allow us to have him back."
Both of Díaz's parents were seized at gunpoint in his hometown of Barrancas, Colombia, by left-wing guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) on 28 October.
While his mother was found, his father is still missing.
'Let my dad go'
Monday's back pages
The Daily Express
Colombia forward Luis Diaz made an emotional plea to his father's kidnappers after scoring a 95th-minute equaliser for Liverpool at Luton on Sunday.
The poignant moment he lifted his shirt to reveal a message saying "freedom for papa", which is pictured here in the Express, dominates every back page this morning.
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