Jurgen Klopp has repeatedly used the same one word to describe Darwin Nunez‘s latest performance for Liverpool.
Nunez is the Reds’ club-record signing following an £85 million transfer from Benfica during the summer.
Prior to Sunday, the 23-year-old had been struggling at Liverpool and hadn’t scored a Premier League goal – or any goal – since the first weekend of the campaign.
However, he found the net in yesterday’s 3-2 defeat away to Arsenal, sliding home an excellent Luis Diaz cross.
The Uruguay international was a handful at times but he still overall appears to struggle to look like an £85 million attacker.
And Klopp has summed up his performance as just ‘good’ when speaking to Liverpool’s official website after the game.
He said: “It was good, it was good. Sharp, good, involved in nearly everything, scored a great goal. Good.”
It’s a pretty decent and accurate summary from Klopp.
Was Nunez spectacular? Absolutely not, but he did score, at the time, an important goal to get Liverpool back into the contest.
However, the German manager will absolutely be looking for the South American to be a lot more involved going forward.
It was, on the whole, a horrendous day for Klopp’s side who are now 14 points adrift in the Premier League title race.
For a side that came perilously close to winning four competitions last season, only winding up with the FA Cup and League Cup, the Reds haven’t started this campaign well at all and people like Nunez are required to drag them out of this funk.
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