Shock as Darwin Nunez proves he can actually play football at Liverpool after four-goal haul – The Warm-Up

FRIDAY’S BIG STORIES Four for Nunez Ad/> Pre-season was already getting too much with the hourly updates of Manchester United’s tour under Erik ten Hag, but what took the biscuit was Troll Twitter going into overdrive over a couple of Darwin Nunez clips during training and in the recent friendly against United. Premier LeagueSecond-half substitute Nunez scores four goals as Liverpool crush Leipzig9 HOURS AGO Before even kicking a Premier League ball the pile-on had started on Liverpool’s summer signing, baseless hyperbole swirling around, labelling Nunez a flop just hours into his life as a Liverpool player based on the fact he wasn’t sticking every chance presented to him into the top corner. So, with a great deal of relief, and without a *shush* celebration that would have been entirely justified, Nunez scored four second-half goals in the friendly win over RB Leipzig last night to hopefully silence those ridiculously early critics.

Turns out a professional footballer who represents his nation and is scoring at a rate of a goal every other game throughout his career so far can actually play football after all. Who’d have thunk it, and, of course, Jurgen Klopp hit the nail on the head afterwards. “They are all completely normal human beings and the first touch is not perfect then all of a sudden…” Klopp said.

“This generation of players read social media, which is really not smart, but they do. All of a sudden you get in a rush and these kinds of things. /> “That’s the best way obviously to stop all these discussions.

He’s a different striker to what we have or what we had, but he’s a really good one.” Grand. Let’s all put that one to bed then, shall we. Second-half substitute Nunez scores four goals as Liverpool crush