One Liverpool participant was slammed for a ‘horrible’ foul in the course of the 2-2 draw towards Manchester United on Sunday, one which’ll have penalties for the Reds.
Darwin Nunez was introduced on for Luis Diaz on the hour mark however barely had an affect on the sport, failing to document a single shot and finishing one measly go in 37 minutes on the pitch (together with stoppage time), by way of Sofascore.
Within the eyes of 1 pundit, the Uruguayan could have been lucky to even make it to the full-time whistle due to an unsavoury second within the ultimate quarter-hour.
The Liverpool striker actually made positive that Matthis de Ligt wouldn’t win one duel when he clattered into the Manchester United defender’s face with a agency shoulder barge.
Nevin slams ‘horrible’ foul by Nunez
Talking on BBC Radio 5 Stay, Pat Nevin felt that Nunez was fortunate to get away with a yellow card for the incident.
The previous Chelsea winger stated (18:08): “Particular yellow for Darwin Nunez. To be trustworthy, I believe Nunez is staggeringly lucky there. That’s completely horrible, straight in on the participant, not trying on the ball. Matthijs de Ligt saved him by getting up so shortly.”
Nunez yellow card will now price Liverpool
Sadly we will’t defend the Uruguayan for what was a harmful problem on De Ligt, who fortunately didn’t incur any lasting injury from the collision.
If it occurred the opposite method round, we’d have been fuming with the Man United defender, so now we have to be goal and admit that it was out of order from Nunez, and never what we need to see from anybody on a soccer pitch.
Apart from that disagreeable flashpoint, the 25-year-old merely didn’t do sufficient throughout his time on the pitch, as evidenced by the aforementioned statistics, and the yellow card he was proven by Michael Oliver was his fifth within the Premier League this season.
It means he’ll now be suspended for our subsequent top-flight fixture, a tough one away to third-placed Nottingham Forest, so he gained’t have the prospect to repeat his stoppage time heroics from our go to to the Metropolis Floor final March.
Slot gained’t have minded if Nunez picked up the one-match ban if he have been booked for a tactical foul (i.e. taking one for the staff), however to have incurred a suspension for a daft and useless foul on De Ligt could have left the Liverpool head coach raging at his quantity 9.
Let’s simply hope that none of our different attackers choose up an damage earlier than we tackle Nuno Espirito Santo’s staff on Tuesday week. We don’t want our ahead line depleted going into that sport.
