Liverpool’s Juergen Klopp hails ‘unstoppable’ Darwin Nunez regardless of lack of targets

Darwin Nunez was not on the scoresheet in Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Aston Villa on Monday however supervisor Juergen Klopp mentioned he was delighted with the Uruguayan’s all-round play and is assured the targets will come.

Nunez missed a number of possibilities towards Villa however his tireless operating and probability creation noticed him named Man of the Match, along with his late cutback permitting teenager Stefan Bajcetic to attain his first senior purpose.

Klopp mentioned he had been round lengthy sufficient in soccer not too lose any sleep over Nunez’s current scoring file.

“There are so many other things that are much more important because we look back at strikers and you cannot imagine some of the chances strikers who I worked with missed,” he mentioned.

“The work rate he put in, the spaces he creates, he’s unstoppable in the moment. There is no defender who can really catch up speed-wise.”

Nunez has scored simply 5 league targets since being introduced in as Sadio Mane’s alternative in a switch that value Liverpool an preliminary payment of 75 million euros ($79.92 million) within the shut season. Klopp mentioned he’s being affected person with the 23-year-old, who additionally failed to attain in three video games on the World Cup.

“He will score goals, I have no doubt about that,” mentioned the German. “Everything will be fine.”