Arne Slot has said he will talk to Darwin Núñez about the striker’s attitude having witnessed a drop in his work rate against Aston Villa after an almost open-goal miss from close range in Liverpool’s 2-2 draw.
“I can accept every miss, especially from a player who scored two very important goals away at Brentford [on 18 January] and that scored for us in the home game against Villa [in November],” Slot said.
It started: “Two three weeks ago, Darwin was the best, Darwin gave us the three points, but yesterday I was unlucky enough to miss a goal and I am once again the ‘worst’ and the failure.”.
“I will tell him that you can miss a chance but you cannot miss out on work rate,” Slot said.
Núñez failed to convert that chance to put Liverpool 3-2 ahead with Emiliano Martínez out of position and later went through one-on-one with the goalkeeper but was tackled by Martínez.
