Darwin Nunez - Thoughts?

[TD_LFC]

I wonder if Mane gets annoyed that his assist for Salah against Utd counts the same as the Dani Alves pass to Messi who then ran from the half way line took on half the Bilbao team and smashed it into the corner.

[Jose Jones]

3 hours ago, Smell The Glove said:

Not sure what the point of the still or your comment is. Are you saying he didn't pass to him on purpose? It was fucking dreadful play by Diaz who otherwise had a decent game.

Seemed about a billion times that Diaz could have played Nunez in and didn’t (probably more like two).

 

Did have an ok game though, I just don’t think he’s good at passing.

Nunez is a better passer for sure, although should have shot in the first half rather than trying to cross to Diaz.

[TD_LFC]

Diaz

 

Passes Completed - 453

Pass Completition % - 80.9% (Short - 89.5%, Medium - 81.1%, Long - 76.6%)

 

Not Diaz

 

Passes Completed - 252

Pass Completition % - 71.4% (Short - 80%, Medium - 69.2%, Long - 53.6%)

 

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Edit - Sorry above was PL only

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Diaz

 

Passes Completed - 543

Pass Completition % - 81.5% (Short - 90.4%, Medium - 80.5%, Long - 78.3%)

 

Not Diaz

 

Passes Completed - 307

Pass Completition % - 72.9% (Short - 81.8%, Medium - 69.1%, Long - 55.2%)

[VladimirIlyich]

4 hours ago, TD_LFC said:

Passing to him in that position is like giving the ball away, it's not going in, we saw that later in the game...

You still wont win the internet no matter how much you bitch(not that one!) and moan about Nunez.

[Smell The Glove]

3 hours ago, Saintslfc13 said:

I think Diaz absolutely chose not to pass to him, and I also think it was a bad decision by Diaz but to be honest I expect Diaz to generally take one touch to many. I suppose it's possible that he somehow thought Darwin could've been offsides though.

We'll never know if Darwin would've scored from that particular moment but the player in Diaz position should be making that pass 100% of the time.

If people are choosing not to pass to him we are in serious trouble. That was such an easy pass the only possible conclusion is that he didn't see him, which is bad enough in itself, because he was concentrating too much on the defender coming across. These are elite level footballers, they know when to play the pass in that position.

[Smell The Glove]

24 minutes ago, Smell The Glove said:

If people are choosing not to pass to him we are in serious trouble. That was such an easy pass the only logical conclusion is that he didn't see him, which is bad enough in itself, because he was concentrating too much on the defender coming across. These are elite level footballers, they know when to play the pass in that position.

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[Code]

I could only look 15 years back to the 09/10 season, but L.Suarez, C.Benteke, C.Wilson, D.Costa and K.Davies all have 10 yellow cards during a PL season, Nunez now have 8. 

 

The thing is, if he gets two more yellow cards before round 32 he will be suspended for two games.

 

It seems Im alone in not wanting our players suspended for stupidity while we are in a title race. 

[Barrington Womble]

9 minutes ago, Code said:

I could only look 15 years back to the 09/10 season, but L.Suarez, C.Benteke, C.Wilson, D.Costa and K.Davies all have 10 yellow cards during a PL season, Nunez now have 8. 

 

 

But yellow cards are up across the board this season aren't they? 

[Code]

11 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

But yellow cards are up across the board this season aren't they? 

Yes I would say so, Palinha got 14 last season, he’s leading the way this season as well with 9. 

[Barrington Womble]

3 minutes ago, Code said:

Yes I would say so, Palinha got 14 last season, he’s leading the way this season as well with 9. 

 

Yeah but they're booking less for bad fouls and more for complaining about decisions. If Suarez played in this league now, he'd be sent off every game. He wouldn't even have time to bite someone. 

[Smell The Glove]

50 minutes ago, Code said:

I could only look 15 years back to the 09/10 season, but L.Suarez, C.Benteke, C.Wilson, D.Costa and K.Davies all have 10 yellow cards during a PL season, Nunez now have 8. 

 

The thing is, if he gets two more yellow cards before round 32 he will be suspended for two games.

 

It seems Im alone in not wanting our players suspended for stupidity while we are in a title race. 

Not sure what you're trying to prove. Don't sign Latins or forwards with elbows?

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, Code said:

I could only look 15 years back to the 09/10 season, but L.Suarez, C.Benteke, C.Wilson, D.Costa and K.Davies all have 10 yellow cards during a PL season, Nunez now have 8. 

 

The thing is, if he gets two more yellow cards before round 32 he will be suspended for two games.

 

It seems Im alone in not wanting our players suspended for stupidity while we are in a title race. 

 

I thought you'd want him to be suspended? 

[Code]

6 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

I thought you'd want him to be suspended? 

No, I want him to score. 

[Bjornebye]

4 minutes ago, Code said:

No, I want him to score. 

 

He did, yesterday. 

[dave u]

When was the last time Mo scored? Fucking ages ago. 

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, dave u said:

When was the last time Mo scored? Fucking ages ago. 

 

He's fucking shit as well the hairy stead-ed

[manwiththestick]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

 

He's fucking shit as well the hairy stead-ed

And he misses penalties on the reg.

[Supremolad]

The thing is Darwin's misses are more memorable and that's why it's easy to fixate and criticise him for them. For example, Jota (our most clinical forward) has missed numerous chances over the past few games, but none are memorable.

 

And that's not knocking Jota. Forwards miss many chances all the time. In fact, the very best of them have a 25% conversion rate approximately. Meaning the very best forwards miss at least 75% of their chances. Darwin just tends to miss a bit more and in a more spectacular way.

[El Dangerous]

23 hours ago, cloggypop said:

 

He's a politician 

Yeah but he’s a lover and a statistician first.

[Jairzinho]

He's also hit the post about 4000 times this season. Some of which he obviously should have buried, but even so it's some pretty shitty variance.

[Trojan1892]

Diaz should have put him in twice on Saturday, Jota snatched at a couple as well….

Had it been Nunez all the cry arse cunts would have been out in full force, Agenda’s agend.

[Code]

21 hours ago, dave u said:

When was the last time Mo scored? Fucking ages ago. 

Just a nicely reminder, imagine if we ever can say the below about Nunez, that would be awesome.

 

But here it is.

 

Mo scored two in his last PL game for us, he’s scored four in his last five PL games for us and he’s scored six in his last nine PL games for us.

 

I like our attacking players to score goals, thats why I like Mo, very simple really. 

[TheHowieLama]

I like to win. 

It's literally in his name.

[TheBitch]

That was the absolute sex, wasn’t it. 

[Elite]

15 minutes ago, TheBitch said:

That was the absolute sex, wasn’t it. 

He only scores spectacular goals. I'm fully on board with him attempting ridiculous stuff for easy chances, like somersault tap ins and the like.