03 Jan 2024 09:23:51
Soo, apparently Darwin Nunez have missed 18 clear cut chances in the PL so far this season. Salah have missed 9 but the difference is Salah just keeps going, You could see how annoyed Nunez was with himself after the header he missed yesterday. Hopefully he can learn to forget the misses and focus on scoring the next one. He has everything apart from composure. Just needs to calm down a bit.

1.) 03 Jan 2024
03 Jan 2024 10:30:08
I don’t think that’s something that you can level at Nunez, he always keeps going whenever he misses.

He also contributes plenty when he’s not scoring.

Hopefully he’ll start banging them in soon, if he does he’ll be one of the best players in the league.

2.) 03 Jan 2024
03 Jan 2024 10:46:17
I’m sure Salah does miss chances, Darwin’s seem to be absolute sitters tho.

3.) 03 Jan 2024
03 Jan 2024 11:23:09
It would be amazing if Darwin could add some more goals to his game. But in my opinion he offers so much already, his runs off the ball, his chasing back, his creativity and selflessness in front of the goal to set up team mates in better positions… of course he’s not perfect and it would be great if he got even better, but he’s one of my favourite players already.

4.) 03 Jan 2024
03 Jan 2024 12:09:41
At some point he has to start taking more chances. Some of the sitters have already cost us points. Nunez does offer a lot in all round play but he now doesn’t have Salah there to bail him out. Potential is massive but needs to score more, no doubt about that for me.

5.) 03 Jan 2024
03 Jan 2024 12:19:38
Nunez does everything else for us except score like Mo. Oh and guess what, we don't have another player in our attacking group who does that.

Bit opposite to the OP, because I don't see any signs that Nunez drops his head at all. His assist for Mo, continuous pressing and stretching the D all good signs that outweigh his lower conversion rate.

6.) 03 Jan 2024
03 Jan 2024 13:19:20
He's a 70 odd million striker. He needs more numbers. The goals will come in time though. I think the real issue is because he came in the same time as haaland he will constantly get compared in terms of output but IMO Nunez does more off the ball work than him.

7.) 03 Jan 2024
03 Jan 2024 16:32:39
Mark other than prolly the Luton game, which game did Darwin's misses cost us points esp. since Salah and Jota missed their own sitters in that same game at Luton?

8.) 03 Jan 2024
03 Jan 2024 16:40:21
Spot on, Faithinworks. Darwin is a much better player overall than he was even in the last 3 months let alone last season. His overall game has improved massively and he has become an absolute menace that no defence wants to deal with, IMO.

And like you said, his head never drops no mater what. Just look at the first goal. When the ball comes to him, he could have gotten into his own head and tried to score BUT notice he doesn't. He recognised the assignment and knew that the best decision for the team (not for himself) was to square it to Salah cos we needed to win the game. He chose the team over himself and that is heartening to see, IMO.

That tells me he is becoming even more intelligent than he is given credit for so full marks to him for recognising the situation. To me if his only problem is being consistent and more clinical in his finishing then, majority of the work is done cos he is already a chance/ chance-making magnet.

9.) 03 Jan 2024
03 Jan 2024 18:34:47
Nunez has to be a nightmare to play against. He missed a couple he should have scored against Newcastle to the keeper made 2-3 great stops at the same time. Another day he scores 2-3 maybe more.

10.) 04 Jan 2024
03 Jan 2024 19:32:01
@RedScarFace, I haven’t seen anybody - certainly on this forum - compare Nunez to Haaland. That aside, ho and when will ‘the goals start to come’ for an international forward playing club football? . It’s been a year and a half now.