Salah plays from the right too, but that doesn’t stop him, and in fact it often tends to be more beneficial since they get to run into space whereas he has to create space with his own movement.
Did Núñez’s role under Jürgen really differ that much from Firmino’s role in the end? I remember we attempted some shape changes at the start of the season he came in, but that was mainly-related to Salah, was it not?
I genuinely don’t know how much of it is a role change, especially given @Zoran’s remarks. He hasn’t been too ineffective there, although it’s dampened his numbers.
Have they really been all that positive? Coming into a team disrupted by injuries and fading midfield players, before doing better in a second season (which was again derailed by injuries). Even the rest of our forwards haven’t done that well in the past couple of seasons, and again I stress, it’s not that I’m throwing shade at them, but I’m more drawing the comparison as to the circumstances, and how he seems to be singled out for the criticism he gets.
Jota is 3 years older, has been with us for far longer, and yet it’s easier to forget how inconsistent he is simply because he just has been injured so often we can barely remember what it’s like for him to get a sustained run in the team.
Díaz’ goalscoring form this season is remarkable precisely because he hadn’t had that level of goalscoring in previous seasons, and he’s 2 years older than Núñez, and again, has been with us for longer.