Darwin Nunez was the supply of loads of frustration in his cameo in opposition to Aston Villa and reporters weren’t going to overlook the possibility to ask Arne Slot about his No. 9 after an enormous miss.
Nearly all of Nunez’s 1,710 minutes this season have come off the bench with Slot clearly favouring Luis Diaz within the centre-forward position, plus Diogo Jota when match.
In six of his final seven outings, Nunez has come off the bench and didn’t make a contribution on the scoresheet. The truth is, his final objective contribution was his match-winning brace at Brentford.
He had the chance to vary that at Villa Park when subbed on for the ultimate 24 minutes, however he lifted his massive likelihood over the crossbar when an open objective was begging from Dominik Szoboszlai‘s cross.
It has been the subject of dialogue after the draw because it highlighted the evident want for Liverpool to spend money on the place, and Slot was requested for his view of the possibility after the actual fact.
“What I noticed was an unbelievable cross from Conor Bradley, and what an influence run from Dominik Szoboszlai who made, in my view, made the proper option to sq. it,” Slot informed reporters.
“From a one-v-one with the goalkeeper, he made it an open objective likelihood. After which Darwin, it was not his greatest leg, he’s right-footed in fact.
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“It was nonetheless a giant likelihood, very unfortunate and I hoped he may have gotten one other one as a result of a participant like him in all probability wouldn’t miss two probabilities in a row.
“He was very shut afterwards when he went in direction of Martinez once more, however Martinez made an important sliding deal with to win the ball.
“I believe we’re all disenchanted, nevertheless it’s regular {that a} participant that misses an opportunity like that is all the time a bit extra disenchanted than the remainder.”
There will probably be loads of lingering disappointment however Liverpool can’t permit the identical feeling to observe the journey to Man Metropolis on Sunday.
