LONDON — Arne Slot stated Darwin Núñez‘s knack of scoring very important late targets for Liverpool is “good to have” after the ahead did so once more to earn his crew an important victory over Brentford on Saturday.
Núñez struck twice in added time to safe Liverpool’s 2-0 win in a sport that featured 48 pictures — a mean of multiple each two minutes.
According to ESPN Global Research, Núñez has been immediately concerned in additional targets instead than another participant within the Premier League since arriving in June 2022 (11 — seven targets, 4 assists), whereas eight of his 24 league targets have been scored within the final quarter-hour of video games.
“He’s all the time having plenty of influence when he is available in,” Slot told the BBC. “[He] brings power and energy. Most of our video games are the final half hour in management round 18 yards, and that is the place he is at his finest.
“The first hour is usually open however the final half-hour dominant. Then to have somebody like Darwin is sweet to have.
“I do not solely take a look at outcomes. We created rather a lot. But now it is a win so I haven’t got to say take a look at our efficiency. I used to be very happy with our efficiency. Brentford made it a struggle. They have good gamers and a superb sport plan. It was a pleasant sport to look at like each time Liverpool are on the pitch.”
The victory in west London was Liverpool’s first within the league for the reason that flip of the yr and staved off speak of a wobble for Slot’s beforehand all-conquering facet following attracts with Manchester United and Nottingham Forest and a Carabao Cup semifinal first-leg defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.
Slot admitted that he was unsure his facet would discover a solution to win the hectic contest in west London.
“I had doubts about that as a result of earlier than we scored the 2 targets, it felt as if I used to be trying on the similar sport time and again and once more in the identical sample come up,” Slot stated.
“So I stated it already a number of instances in different interviews that in opposition to United, everyone was targeted on the Maguire probability, however the seven minutes earlier than we had three open probabilities.
“So, so many instances within the latest weeks — in opposition to Tottenham as nicely — we missed plenty of probabilities. Against Forest as nicely us, we missed rather a lot. So yeah, it will’ve been a bit shocking if I felt ‘OK in spite of everything these probabilities missed as we speak, we’ll in all probability rating within the final 5 minutes,’ however the boys, the gamers proved me flawed once more.”
