Liverpool’s $74.7 Million Hitman Darwin Nunez Reflects His Struggles With Barcelona’s Former 195-Goal Machine

Liverpool is amid a disastrous season in the Premier League. They are out of the domestic cups and are six points adrift of the top four in the league. The Merseyside club will take on reigning champions Real Madrid in the round of 16 Champions League tie. They will rely on their attack, including misfiring Darwin Nunez, who recently compared himself to a former Barcelona striker. 

The Uruguayan is under criticism after his big-money move from Benfica for not scoring goals. He has so far scored six goals in the Premier League and ten overall in all competitions. Recently, he compared himself with his Uruguay teammate Luis Suarez, who also struggled to score at the Merseyside club in his first season.

What has Darwin Nunez said about the former Barcelona striker?

“I think the same thing is happening to me as happened to Suarez. In his second year, he tore it up. Something similar happened to me already at Benfica. The first year went very badly for me, and in the second, I exploded,” Nunez said recently on his goal-scoring woes at Liverpool this season. 

In his first season at Benfica, the striker scored only six goals in the league. However, he was on top last season, scoring 26 goals in the league and six in the UEFA Champions League. His goal-scoring exploits caught the eyes of many European giants, and Liverpool bought the player in a big-money move last summer. 

Although Nunez is yet to replicate the goal-scoring form, this season with Liverpool and is facing criticism from the pundits and the fans. Meanwhile, the Reds fans chanted the name of the Uruguayan in their latest game against Newcastle United. 

As Nunez pointed out, in the first two seasons of Suarez at Liverpool, the former striker also had a disastrous first complete season at the Anfield. Suarez scored just 11 goals in his first full season in 2011-12 at Liverpool. Next two seasons, the former Ajax star lit up the Premier League by scoring 23 and 31 goals, respectively. Suarez won the Premier League Golden Boot in 2013-14 before making a big-money move to FC Barcelona.

Nunez with an injury scare ahead of the Real Madrid game

Sunday saw a Liverpool striker score a 10th-minute opener against Newcastle United. However, Liverpool forward was taken off in the 59th minute for the injury. The Uruguayan injured his shoulder. The manager will update fans on Nunez’s injury in his pre-match press conference on Monday.

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Liverpool is already without Thiago Alcantara and Luis Diaz for the game due to injuries. They will be relieved to see Roberto Firmino and Diogo Jota coming back from injuries, though. It will be an interesting first leg at Anfield between the Merseyside club and Los Blancos. Both are coming into the game on the back of significant results.

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What do you think of the comments of Nunez over his goal-scoring? Will Liverpool surprise Real Madrid at Anfield?