He is Liverpool's most expensive signing and now Darwin Nunez is part of the club's negative history

Darwin Nunez has now gone six consecutive Premier League games without scoring a goal. The Uruguayan striker has had chances to break his streak, but his lack of finishing has been worrying. His Premier League numbers are worse than those of Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mané and Luis Díaz. When the dismemberment of Liverpool's great trident of Salah, Mané and Firmino began, Nunez, signed for 80 million from Benfica, arrived as a replacement for the Senegalese.

Darwin has scored just thirteen goals in 44 Premiership games, and worst of all he has done so with an xG (expected goals) of 23.47. The xG statistic (which measures the odds from 0 to 1 that a shot will result in a goal) shows that he should have scored, according to the data, 23.47 goals, but he has only scored 13 goals. This xG balance is worse than that of the members of Liverpool's past trident in their first 44 games for Liverpool and also worse than that of Luis Diaz, a player who arrived a few months before Nunez at Anfield to also replace the trident.

In Salah's case, in his first 44 games, he scored 35 goals (including 32 in his first season), with an xG of 28.13. In other words, his xG balance was +6.87. He scored almost seven goals more than the statistics dictate. Sadio Mané, now plying his trade in Saudi Arabia, scored 19 goals.

He is the most expensive signing

Darwin Nunez arrived at Anfield last year as the most expensive signing in the club's history, as Liverpool paid 80 million for him from Benfica and while he had gone on a good run, he is now in the club's bad books, something he will be looking to make up for in the game against Manchester United on Sunday.