Darwin Nunez got 24 minutes on the pitch against Aston Villa by Slot. Not much time to work your way into the game, but when you come in as a reserve in a close game, where a goal can decide the whole game, then as a striker with fresh legs you have a key role. Darwin Nunez responded to the confidence by missing an open goal. Not surprisingly, Slot was asked about the almost inexplicable miss.
To us from the couch, of course, it looks easier than it is, but when you play for England’s best club, you’re missing something when a “even my grandmother could have scored” miss could have given Liverpool the win.
Arne Slot says there is a long talk waiting for Nunez, but the Liverpool manager shows he stands behind the players in the event of blunders.
“I can accept any miss, especially from a player who scored two important goals with Brentford. I would rather him score, but the word ‘chance’ says it all,” Arne Slot begins, according to the Mirror.
“I can accept that, but it was more difficult to accept the behaviour after the chance,” the Liverpool manager continues.
“It went to his head, and he wasn’t the normal Darwin who gives everything, he was too disappointed after he burned, and therefore he wasn’t quite himself. It’s not the chance, but it’s the 20 minutes after that I want to talk to Darwin about,” says Slot.
