Two strikers have been playing for Liverpool in the last five months. One of them is the Hanna-Barbera character. Her shoes are two sizes too big. His meandering movements in and around the penalty area – a stretch of grass that alternately seems to turn to ice or quicksand beneath his feet – is soundtracked by circus music. American Photo Player. He a passing equality To Andy Carroll. He has a bad habit of walking over everything and then being surprised at how much space he finds himself in, and generally plays his position as if you got partial credit for hitting the stanchions behind the net.
Two other strikers scored their goals in a literal strike in the 2-2 draw between Liverpool and Wolves in the FA Cup this past weekend. He has 10 goals in all competitions this season, which would make him the team’s second-leading goalscorer. He pretty much does everything he needs to do. He’s constantly running, and you can almost never come across him not having an impact on the game. He is an enterprising, all-rounder who Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp adores. He often lurks in the last defender’s blind spot, makes himself a nuisance for the back line, and does well when he receives good service. When play isn’t building well from the back or as quickly as Liverpool would like, he’ll drop inside and drive the ball forward himself.
The curiosity here is that these strikers wearing no. 27’s jersey, and the same is a 23-year-old man. Darwin Nunez arrived from Benfica in the summer for £85million after a breakout season in which he quadrupled his previous season’s goal tally in the Primeira Liga (from six to 26). helped The Portuguese side edged Liverpool to the brink of elimination in a 10-goal Champions League thriller. This summer it looks like Nunez will be joining England’s perennial second-best team, a team that just came in. A hair’s breadth of width– which no English team has ever done. But over the course of this year’s campaign, Liverpool have started to look like a team that needs to stay relevant. They are 16 points behind Premier League leaders Arsenal, never mind arch-rivals Manchester City, and have just limped into an FA Cup third-round replay against a team in second and last place.
In a display of strength and presence following last week’s 3-1 Premier League defeat by Brenford, Klopp fielded a strong side in Liverpool’s bid to retain at least one trophy from last season. Also new Wolves manager Julen Lopetegui First complained His team will have two fewer days to prepare for the match – a classic strategy to lower expectations when facing a team you clearly expect to lose. But the wolf did not lose. In the 26th minute, Liverpool suddenly seemed to score Connection lost; Wolves’ first goal through Goncalo Guedes was gifted to him by a surprised Alisson who flicked the ball straight into the forward’s path. It came as a result of the normally safe Thiago Alacantra attempting some lazy stepovers on the edge of his own box.
But back to Nunez, who just minutes earlier had tried to kick off a defiant overhead kick off a deflected ball off the feet of a Wolves defender, who had charged something between Mohamed Salah’s pass or shot. A chance out of absolutely nothing. It’s tempting to the neutral viewer to suggest that if it had come off – a cat-like display of athleticism, which Nunez is capable of but has yet to utilize enough for Liverpool, it might have started. something Exclusive to Uruguay. Some sort of inexorable snowball motion eventually results in “world class” and “club legend” status. According to till then Residents of the InternetHe is a flop.
He arrived in the Premier League as Erling Haaland scored 21 league goals this season for Liverpool’s rivals in the northwest. It’s hard to ignore, on the contrary, Nunez leads the league at some distance “Big chances missed” per 90 minutes. This is the go-to for defending Liverpudlian figures In order to miss out on great opportunities, one must first approach dangerous situations, which is the type of creative accounting that follows the Uruguayan, who is, again, 23 years old. A sense of inadequacy about Nunez can easily be turned into a promise of potential if you consider how close he is to being the ideal big man you need. The title is ripped straight from Push, a soft drink commercial. He’s broad-shouldered, a shade under 6-foot-2, religiously committed to the press, and has all the requisite tattoos. He causes the most havoc in the channel, but he is also capable of winning headers and bringing the more inventive elements of Liverpool’s midfield into play.
This kind of haggling over Nunez’s ability will likely continue until he scores five goals against Real Madrid. Klopp claimed to see “a lot of similarities” between the Uruguayan and Robert Lewandowski, who he managed at Dortmund when Lewandowski left. A similar achievement. Of course, the comparison was meant to illustrate how far Nunez had to go: “We had shooting sessions where he never completed a single one.”
There are big reasons for concern at Liverpool, namely that defence: once well-marshalled and impregnable, they have already conceded almost as many goals in the Premier League than last season, and centre-back Virgil van Dijk has been sidelined. A significant hamstring injury. Without solidity at the back, how can Liverpool throw everything else forward and put teams to the sword like they used to?
This makes moments of perfect synergy, such as Nunez’s FA Cup goal in the 45th minute, all the more frustrating. From an errant clearance, Trent Alexander-Arnold darted into space down the right-hand side. Nunez raised his hand for a pass and made his way to the center circle, darting past the Wolves defenders. Alexander-Arnold whipped in a brilliant early cross, beating every defender, catching the keeper in no man’s land. Nunez casually curled a cross from his own into the far corner without breaking his momentum.
In the second half, he was anonymous.
