Jamie Carragher was critical of one Liverpool player towards the end of the 2-0 win over Brentford at Anfield this afternoon.
Goals from Luis Diaz and Mo Salah secured three more points as Arne Slot continues his 100% start as the Reds’ head coach, with another forward in Darwin Nunez coming off the bench for the final 20 minutes.
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He directed a header wide from a Harvey Elliott cross in the 85th minute, and although the subsequent offside flag rendered the passage of play irrelevant, the Sky Sports co-commentator still admonished the Uruguayan.
Carragher said (Sky Sports live web commentary, 18:14): “He’s a long way offside, Nunez. It’s a big problem he’s got to fix. Hopefully Slot and his coaching staff can do it.”
That was Liverpool’s only offside infringement all afternoon at Anfield, which suggests that it isn’t an issue for the team as a whole, although Nunez has some unenviable previous in that regard.
As per FBref, the 25-year-old was flagged for that rule breach 33 times in the Premier League last season, only four fewer than the next two most regular culprits (Diaz and Salah) combined.
The numbers show that our number 9 can lose his concentration when it comes to holding his position and not letting promising chances fade to nothing, and it’s something that Slot will surely want to address with the Uruguayan at the AXA Training Centre.
Fixing those crucial details can only help Nunez and Liverpool in the long run as they seek to trouble Manchester City and Arsenal throughout the 2024/25 campaign.
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Mr Carragher you just don’t like Darwin since the very beginning, your comment against this player will never help, you always have to said something negative and you will continue until the day Liverpool sell him , I don’t know who you are but please back off you are not helping
In fairness the Carragher, Darwin Nunez has been caught offside more than any other Liverpool attacker last season. I personally noticed it as well.
I don’t think Carragher have any I’ll feeling for Nunez, it’s just a sincere criticism.
Darwin Nunez and the coaching crew should work on his concentration on goal bound moves.
You don’t know who JC is? I may not always agree with him but I can’t deny that he was one of the best CHs that Liverpool ever had.
Scored plenty of OG’s though…
absolutely right, many fans are noticing that.
You are a fool not to know Jamie Carragher,what kind of fan are you? And Carragher is right,Nunez is the best offside player for Liverpool. Still wondering why Liverpool paid 85millionfor him.
You don’t know who Carragher is and you are on a Liverpool site? Some Liverpool fan Carlos. Suggest that if you are a fan of the club then look up Liverpool’s longest serving players in the clubs history to start with.
He’s also a football pundit and he does what other pundits do, make observations and criticise if they think it’s necessary. It’s called having an opinion. Every person on planet earth is entitled to one.
And you are? He needs to hear it until he fixes it!!!
I am sorry but he is right Darwin looks like a beginner for real it’s like now that he is trying to learn how to play football there are basic things as a striker you should be able to do and Darwin doesn’t have them
Carlos I believe you have faith in Nunes but stats don’t lie your boy is the most flagged striker in all top leagues in Europe .. he fluffed so many easy chances the were clear last season denying Lfc important goals that would have made a big difference in the business end of the campaign..have you asked yourself why Mr Slot hasn’t started a top striker like him … Nunes needs to get his head right otherwise his days at Kirkby and anfield are numbered
He certainly has a problem with drifting offside during promising moves, but his bigger drawback as a top striker is his inability to score sitters.
Is all good, Darwin is good and he has the potential to be great for Liverpool, I have that strong feeling that he’s gonna turn this around for good for himself and team.
Jamie wants to discourage Nunez, last season he did the same but in next game Nunez’s performance slapped him. Lets him play starting XI then see.
Coaching staff has a lot to do more about Nunez considering positioning himself . But Nunez has to accept
He does play further up the pitch, its like saying alison is better, he doesnt get caught offside so much.
Yes Nunez frustrates me. He’s forever offside and makes no effort to correct it. Against Brentford he was slow to come out (from way offside) then goes to receive a ball without first checking to play himself on side. Unacceptable!
Absolutely ridiculous it’s like he isn’t even trying even when he’s looking at the defenders number he still gets caught!! How? Is he trying to be the most offside player ever? Like he wants to go in the Guinness book of world records
Liverpool number 9 he can do nothing to the team we have to get another number 9 famino was a wonderful number 9 it will take time to replace him
Carlos, I fully concur with what you alluded to. I’m a Liverpool since 1978. I’m sick and tired of former soccer players who critize the current players, BUT they didn’t play perfect football either. I watched all the games mr. Carragher played. He always did his best, but there were times where I wished that he be substituted , because I wasn’t happy with the way how he defended.
What a Dumb and Stupid comment.What Jamie is saying is correct.Darwin is not timing his runs and positioning himself properly. Jamie is just raising a point that they neglected last season and he has nothing against Darwin Nunez.What he is actually saying is if and when he times his runs to perfection then he is gonna be a menace to any defence yeah.So Mr Carragher has a valid point there yeah.👌🙌🙏
I wounder hearing carragher criticizing yet he was a king of scoring own goals, please carragher be reminded that you never achieved anything good for Liverpool. Leave Nunez alone.
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Darwin is a raw talent. It’s up to our coaching staff to rectify any deficiencies he may have by developing the skills. He has shown he can finish it just his consistency and concentration. Let’s send words of encouragement. We are LIVERPOOL FC. YNWA.
While he has unquestionable talent, Nunez has a lack of discipline that holds him back from fulfilling his promise. Additionally he is a fiery player but he needs to learn to get his emotions under control, rather than controlling him. The clock is ticking on giving him time to mature. If he doesn’t seem to get it by the end of the season Liverpool should move on from him.
He is a centre forward and expected to get caught as if he was on line he might not be in a position to score. So the margin for error is expected, then the players on the wings, who have a better view of the defenders.
Jamie is a fool sometimes.
We may have won 2-0 in both the first two games. However, the chances faded to nothing, and poor decisions from 2 strikers who, for three seasons, have the lowest G/A of all LFC strikers and play more minutes than others need to be called out—aka Jota and Diaz, who I both like.
Their misses were poor and wasted chances. Having a go at Nunez for 15 minutes when he got no service and was hungry was childish.
Every other team will score 4-6 goals and have against the first two teams, Brentford and Ipswich.
Diaz played more minutes than Gakpo and Nunez for three seasons and had the lowest G/A of all LFC strikers every season.
With proper guidance Nunez can become a very dangerous player for Liverpool. At times excessive creticisim will not help the player. He might end up feeling not wanted or not suitable. I remember during Garragher’s playing days, he was never the best we had as a CB.