Thanks for everything, Nunez has a month without scoring and Klopp's tough decision that shocks everyone

The Uruguayan player is going through a bad run of form

12/12/2023, 03:36 PM +00:00

After Liverpool's important win over Crystal Palace made them overall leaders of the competition, manager Jürgen Klopp is likely to take stock of the team's performance in the final week of the league competition, with some great merits such as overturning adverse scorelines, but also some negatives such as Darwin Nunez's goal drought.

Although the Uruguayan striker of the Reds has shown that his value in the offense can be focused not only on getting the final shots on goal, this element seems to be losing with the games that confidence of the German coach, being evidenced this with the increasingly constant implementation of Cody Gakpo, an element that has responded well with a couple of goals that make him a good attacker of difficult games.

According to the Anything Liverpool account via X, Darwin Nunez is said to have scored his last goal for the club on 1 November, when Liverpool played Bournemouth in the Carabao Cup, with the Reds winning 2-1 and Gakpo also playing a key role in getting the Reds through to the next round.

Nunez's negative run has the player with a total of 7 goals and 13 assists in all competitions, while Gakpo has managed 6 goals for 7 assists, with the two virtually evenly matched in terms of shots on target, although the Uruguayan has been a better assist man, which is why Klopp continues to use him as a recurring fixture at the start of games.

Nunez must improve his shot on goal

The main reason why Nunez has practically the same amount of goals as his teammate Gakpo is because of the constant failures that this charrúa element has in front of the goal, offering Nunez shots that usually go to one side of the goal and others that end up crashing into one of the posts, needing Nunez more practice in the definition of the goal to make him a much more complete player, gaining for this campaign a greater presence in the area and better support for his teammates, reflecting this with the assists he has so far.