Nunez ended a 14-match plot drought for Liverpool by scoring his first this season in Saturday’s 3-0 Premier League home derive over Bournemouth, which became once his first initiate of the campaign.
Reuters
24 September, 2024, 04:50 am
Final modified: 24 September, 2024, 04:54 am
Liverpool’s Darwin Nunez ought to withhold his composure and create consistently as he tries to deal with the stress of his sizable money cross, captain Virgil van Dijk mentioned earlier than Wednesday’s League Cup third spherical tie at home to West Ham United.
The 25-yr-feeble signed from Benfica two years in the past in a club file deal reportedly payment up to 85 million euros ($94.55 million) and Van Dijk mentioned the stress is on for the Uruguay worldwide to lift consistently in his third season.
“He started in opposition to Bournemouth and scored an dazzling plot nevertheless he might well furthermore merely not initiate the next game,” Van Dijk urged native media.
“We prefer him to be consistent and withhold doing it and doing it when he comes on and (also) when he begins. That’s the main element, don’t derive dragged into the positivity and then the low of the negativity or you are going to be dizzy at a particular level.”
Final season, Nunez topped the Premier League for quite lots of offsides (33) and became once also the unluckiest in front of plot, hitting the woodwork nine times.
Nunez, who scored 11 targets and had eight assists from 36 league appearances remaining timeframe, had the 2nd-perfect quantity of sizable probabilities ignored (27), trailing easiest Manchester Metropolis’s Erling Haaland (34), who received the Golden Boot with 27 targets.
“For him, coming right into a club love Liverpool with the cost tag there is repeatedly going to be stress to make week in, week out and he’s attempting to close that nevertheless it’s not repeatedly that straight forward,” added Van Dijk.
“Now it’s time for him to close aloof and I mediate, for my fragment, he has been doing that considerably greater and the supervisor is busy with him lots and us as gamers and we factual contain to shield him shut to us and withhold going.”
Liverpool consult with Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League on Saturday and host Italian facet Bologna in their 2nd Champions League game on Oct. 2.
