As someone else (I think @Arminius?) has noted though his recent goals/assists have come from the exact opposite, where he’s had more time. I’m also wondering if his shots are more towards the goalkeepers now more so because of how unlucky he was with hitting the woodwork in the past two seasons.
Aiming closer or towards the goalkeeper more because he was hitting the woodwork a lot?
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Yeah, it’s a natural reaction, Salah does that quite a fair bit too, often in the course of a single game. I have this joke with my partner that when Salah hits it off-target and then subsequently at the goalkeeper, that he’s just calibrating his shot. More often than not he proves us right and hits it in after.
One great piece of advice is hit the ball at the keeper as it’s rare that you place it were you wish. Of course at ‘this’ level there’s some players that can place shots really well, Sturridge, Salah, Trent, oh and Henry.
From what I remember many of Nunez’ misses were precisely because he did hit them at the keeper and they were saved.
Nunez is an exception to the ‘rules’.
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Another piece of advice for Darwin… aim the shot at the keeper, BUT, pretend your are aiming for the corner… That way, when the goalkeeper dives to save the imaginary shot… he will have moved out of the way of the true trajectory… :0)
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I hope he is on here, with all that sagely advice he will score 50 in the PL next year.
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I think some people are desperate for him to turn into a cult hero.
He looks like a foreign object in this team 95% of his time on the pitch. Nothing works out for him. Add to that frustration and low confidence…
I knew he would miss a pen if he takes one. Just a result of all the above.
He’ll leave Liverpool with some trophies but other than that this was far from a perfect match.
I expect he will go this summer.
Penalties are lotteries and with his current form he probably shouldn’t be near one.
Anyhow. Darwin do your best until this season is over we have two cups available.
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Slot:
‘Hey Darw, you feel confident enough to take a pen’
I think 99% professional footballers would answer yes. Even the intelligent ones. And Darwin is not one of them.
Penalties are penalties and I know we have two guys who for some reason must have been 4th or 5th but should be 2nd and 3rd
I have no issue with the penalty miss it happens it wasn’t a great penalty. The more disappointing aspect was his performance ambled around looking like he had been on from start. Thats the thing with him you never get a consistent run of performance from him.
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He looked so out of sync, like he landed on that pitch from a spacecraft.
Seeing that he inhabits Planet Darwin, that wouldn’t be a surprise.
You could have knee-capped Jota at half-time and he wouldn’t have been any worse than Nunez when he came on. Appalling.
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I’m unsurprised that everyone seems to be piling on him so much given the penalty miss and that we went out of the cup.
But if we’re being honest with ourselves, when he came on he was trying to make things happen, but then we seemed to just change the way we were playing right after that. He gave PSG something to worry about, but then the rest of the team for whatever reason seemed to withdraw further into their shells.
I wonder how different things would be if Alexander-Arnold hadn’t gotten injured.
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He didn’t really give PSG anything to worry about. He was poor from the moment he came on. One pass to Salah was so off course it was ridiculous.
Last week he looked up for the challenge. Last night he was awful.
I don’t know if it was the same one I was thinking about, but there was one where he passed to where he expected Salah to be without looking, but the latter had stopped his run. There was also that moment of confusion, I think because he looked up and saw that Díaz wasn’t running central so expected him to be trying to get to the long ball, and then got frustrated when it turned out Díaz was actually doing neither.
I disagree. He made quite a few good runs and challenged them physically, giving us an option to pass to up front, which we stopped doing after a while.
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Nope
We can disagree.
I defended hm quite a bit, but its over. Pockets of positivity but just not enough.
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Yeah, and I even thought he could have the edge, starting ahead of Jota last night. But that was shit, not kidding ourselves.
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Still think that he was better than Jota, whose injuries have really taken a toll on his form, but overall not even close to an acceptable performance. And that look of dread when he was taking the penalty says it all.
By the way, Nunez had scored 12 out of 12 penalties before coming to Liverpool. He is 0/2 since then.
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