And just as importantly, as soon as the ball broke was immediately looking for the pass. Pretty much a textbook example of how to thrive in this side, and done within minutes of coming on.
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Looked at him a few times and didnāt seem to be covering Mo who had gone out of position. Comparing him pressing wise to Bobby who I think would have made the cover. Iām probably wrong, just a spilt second thought
He wonāt be allowed to stroll around. Heās been at the club 10 minutes, itās often been thought of that it takes about 6 months to really understand how to play for us. Even someone as good as Thiago took a bit of time.
Diaz was the anomoly.
Anyway, with the way he moves and the size he is then it doesnāt really matter that much. Heāll just bully teams.
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50 quid on him being top goalscorer next season.
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Salah will outscore him thoughā¦
Nah, now weāve got an out and out #9 youāll see the goals distributed more evenly across the front 3.
Iām predicting (In all comps); Diaz 17 goals, Jota 20 goals, Firmino 9 goals, Salah 26 goals and Nunez with a whopping 29 goals.
With Mbappe only getting 28.
Certain other teams I would back Salah but we donāt get enough penalties to bump up Salah by say 5-6.
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As there is no post match thread yet Iāll stick it in here.
This guy is going be a real menance
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Needs to be our starting no.9 from now on, changed the game.
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I love Bobby and heāll be the first player I will think of when I remember the Klopp era but he makes us too predictable these days. Opposing teams know exactly what heās going to do and heās become easy to shut down. Nunez is the complete opposite. Even from the small evidence base of a couple of games itās clear teams donāt know how to handle him. Heās constantly getting into scoring positions and could have easily had a hat trick today.
With Bobby not stretching the defense you see Diaz taking more responsibility to angle in off his wing and try to hit those spaces. That leaves a void on the left we need Robbo to fill. Today we werent getting enough good possession to enable Robbo to get that high reliably and it meant all our passing options were inside and we forced ourselves to play into the areas Fulham wanted us to. It then snowballs where Robbo cannot get forward well because we dont have good possession, which means our passing options are limited and we struggle to maintain possession. It was like a battle of wills that we needed to be braver to win.
Nunezās runs changed the dynamic, but it also benefited from the fact we had started to see glimmers of evidence that Fulhamās effectiveness without the ball was waning slightly meaning we already had a little more room to play in. I think he compunded it, but he didnt cause it.
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All I know is that the ladās played less than 2 halves of football for us, scored twice, won a penalty, had an assist and could have scored 4 more goals. He makes things happen. That much is obvious.
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If he becomes a bit more clinical 
Iām sure Jurgen and the coaches are working on this.
He takes shots, lots of themā¦ That means heās in the right place and heās causing problemsā¦
Thatās the problem with Bobby, too perfect, too few shots. He will be great with 20mins to go, to bring on vās tired legs but the future if Nunez on the shoulder over and over. The amount of space he created for Salah was crazy, straight away Salah went for having a CB and FB covering him to one v one vās the FB and demolished him.
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This! Exactly this! Nunez occupies the CBs and distracts them. That frees up Diaz and Salah.
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Beautifulā:heart:
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Google translate: The power pack from Uruguay was fastest in the first Premier League weekend. 
But, but, but Haaland ā¦
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