Those numbers work out at an overall xG conversation rate of 63.3 per cent, which is the lowest among all of the 31 players to have scored at least 20 Premier League goals since Nunez joined Liverpool.
And so the impression of Nunez after two and a half years in England is of an enthusiastic forward with a blundering bull-in-a-China-shop energy, a striker with a highlights reel of misses every bit as awe-inspiring as his compilation of goals, who can carry the look of a man entirely unfamiliar with the orb at his feet.
Since joining Liverpool in the summer of 2022, Nunez has scored 24 Premier League goals in 86 appearances, or once every 193 minutes.
It might not surprise Arsenal or Chelsea fans to see Kai Havertz (76 per cent) and Nicolas Jackson (71 per cent) on the more wasteful end of the scale, but Nunez is more profligate still.
Indeed this season’s numbers are relatively stable: Nunez was actually slightly outperforming his expected goals before the Villa game, albeit from a very small sample size.
