Darwin Nunez - Thoughts?

[Dave D]

3 minutes ago, LFC 6 Times said:

That goal was fucking sensational. To do that in CL Knock out game against Real Madrid is unbelievable. Fucking shame it won’t be remembered fondly.

It was a good goal- sensational is when you add another 2

[VladimirIlyich]

11 hours ago, stringvest said:

 

I agree.  Bringing on Firmino is like battered wives syndrome.  We know he's going to be shit.  He's been on an almost unbroken 3 year run of shitness.  Why does Jurgen do it to himself?

Because he feels he has to. Our bench last night was woeful too.

We have some good kids and good signings but too many players over the hill or finished at the necessary level now.

[Barrington Womble]

4 minutes ago, Dave D said:

It was a good goal- sensational is when you add another 2

That would have been sensational. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Its a shame he didnt have the players around him.

[johnsusername]

13 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Its a shame he didnt have the players around him.

 

He was very isolated on the wing. Couple of times he had the ball and (a bit like Salah) he's 40 yards from goal and we're expecting him to take on a few players and score a worldie. 

 

Where are all our players? It looks like we're playing with ten men half the time. 

[Jairzinho]

I thought Gakpo was actually quite decent. 

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, Jairzinho said:

I thought Gakpo was actually quite decent. 

He is. Again looking worse in a poor team. Good for the future,if we get good players around. Same as Nunez,Bajcetic and one or two others.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

9 hours ago, Jairzinho said:

I thought Gakpo was actually quite decent. 

Agree, he was pretty good.

[Section_31]

Header was majestic.

[Pidge]

19 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Header was majestic.

Here it is again for anyone that missed it...

 

 

[Lee909]

Big step up considering he'd only really had 80 odd games for Benfica at any decent level. Averaging a goal every 135 minutes per mins played and a goal/assist every 105. Definitely looking a player that should be in the range of 18-20 goals and 8-10 assists a season if he gets the minutes. 

 

I do wonder if we got a offer for Jota that would be in the range we paid for him if we would sell. I don't think he's looked right since his injury around Xmas a year ago. He's too injury prone for me to rely on him. Like him as a player just think a fitter player would give us a better 5th option with Bobby going aswell. Someone who can play on the right aswell

[3 Stacks]

One of the most interesting developments of the season is his positioning. There is no doubt we bought him to be a central striker eventually, but he has been far more dangerous on the left and it's not even just that, the whole shape has pretty much been deficient when he's been in the middle. The next step is figuring that part out. The inversion of Gakpo and Nunez is working right now but is that what the plan is long term. Or does it even matter. 

 

Anyway, it's hard to fault the productivity. He wasn't even good today, looked sluggish, yet he scored two. He seems to have a knack for scoring scruffy goals. Like, he'll fluff a lot of easy stuff but then he'll make up for it by the ball going in off his shin or he'll score a header without looking at the goal. 

 

 

[Lee909]

2 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

One of the most interesting developments of the season is his positioning. There is no doubt we bought him to be a central striker eventually, but he has been far more dangerous on the left and it's not even just that, the whole shape has pretty much been deficient when he's been in the middle. The next step is figuring that part out. The inversion of Gakpo and Nunez is working right now but is that what the plan is long term. Or does it even matter. 

 

 

 

 

 

I wouldn't say it does matter. Probably something we can work to our advantage getting Nunez on the fullback in the back post from Trent could cause smaller fullbacks a world of problems. If they counter that with a CB at fullback need to tell Nunez to isolate them and just run as they'll never keep up with them. 

 

They'll also switch plenty during games. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Our front three have to be fluid,even Mo plays centrally now and again. Yesterday was an example of how both Nunez and Gakpo's movement can benefit us long term and how useful having players who are not stuck in a pigeon hole and make themselves easy to mark. Gakpo took up some prime Firmino type positions yesterday and showed how good his movement can be. Jota has some catching up to do but he will get time to do that before May,injuries permitting. Diaz return is interesting as well. Makes you wonder if one will be sold,or not hopefully.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

 

[Vincent Vega]

Interesting this, he’s much more lethal when he’s instinctive.

 

[Em City]

On 07/03/2023 at 02:39, AngryOfTuebrook said:

 

 

Name *tick*

 

"Running down the line/wing" *tick*

 

Shirt number *tick*

 

Country of origin *tick*

 

 

[Barrington Womble]

16 minutes ago, Em City said:

 

Name *tick*

 

"Running down the line/wing" *tick*

 

Shirt number *tick*

 

Country of origin *tick*

 

 

A complete fucking noise where it's impossible to tell what the tune is *tick*. That's a fucking awful song that. Is it to the tune of hound dog? 

[LFC 6 Times]

That song is fucking chronic.

[3 Stacks]

2 hours ago, Vincent Vega said:

Interesting this, he’s much more lethal when he’s instinctive.

 

 

Probably has more to do with shot location more than anything else, just looking at that. There's way more shots central and close to the goal in that first picture and you're more likely to need to hit it first time when you're that close to the goal. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

I've got to admit I think that song is pretty damn awful.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

6 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

Is it to the tune of hound dog? 

It's supposed to be.

 

He could do with a song, but that's probably not it.

[sir roger]

I think the Nunez header was far more difficult than Wor Andy's one.

[John102]

Im going to go against the grain a bit here, but i dont mind the 'he's our number 27 and he comes from Uruguay' bit.

[Reckoner]

In my day songs referred to players running down wings, not lines. This won’t do. I’m out.