Darwin Nunez: fun
There are few players as much fun to watch as Darwin Nunez, and the Liverpool striker showed both his best and most chaotic sides in their win at Aston Villa.For the first time this season, Liverpool have now won three consecutive Premier League matches. And for the first time since the end of August they’re back in the top six in the table.
But it only took him five minutes to right this. Refusing to give up on a ball that looked as though it was rolling inexorably out of play, he pulled it back from the touchline, where Villa goalkeper Robin Olsen could only palm the ball out, allowing Stefan Bajcetic to compose himself and put the ball through the legs of Tyrone Mings and kill off any lingering threat that Villa may have continued to offer.
Towards the end of the first half came such a moment, when a long ball over the top came at him as he ran through on goal. The slow motion replays showed it all; the perfect timing of the run, the foresight to look up and size up the opportunity, and a first time volley straight at Olsen.
They had not. Ollie Watkins pulled one back for Villa just before the hour and the momentum stayed with them for much of the next 20 minutes without them being able to turn their possession into an equaliser. But while they may have lost this game, Aston Villa look very much improved under Unai Emery in comparison with whatever on earth it was that Steven Gerrard was attempting to serve up before Emery’s arrival at the club.
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