Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp praises ‘dangerous’ Darwin Nunez despite missing sitter against Manchester United

The Uruguayan had a full of life – if wasteful – cameo off the bench (Footage: Getty / MUTV)

Jurgen Klopp noticed loads of promising indicators from Darwin Nunez because the club-record £85million signing made his first look for Liverpool in Tuesday’s 4-0 loss to Manchester United.

A ruthless efficiency from the Pink Devils introduced a morale-boosting pleasant victory for brand spanking new boss Erik ten Hag, with Jadon Sancho, Fred, Anthony Martial and Facundo Pellistri all getting on the scoresheet in Thailand.

Liverpool had been already three objectives down when Nunez got here off the bench with half-an-hour left on the clock, and he had a full of life cameo.

Regardless of having taken half in fewer classes than most of the gamers on the pitch, the Uruguayan was continually concerned, had a number of sighters of aim and must have netted within the 87th minute however blazed over the bar from 10 yards after Mohamed Salah’s shot had bounced again off the submit.

Whereas that miss went viral, Klopp was eager to deal with the positives and was happy together with his new ahead’s work price and runs in behind, with the German coach feeling that Nunez already has the belief of his new team-mates.

Requested about Nunez after the match, Klopp replied: ‘He's a quantity 9 and he can play on the wing as properly. We are going to see the place he'll play.

‘However what you would see is the boys had been already trying to find him.

Nunez had an awesome likelihood to open his Liverpool account (Image: Getty)

‘It was his third session (since arriving for pre-season coaching) and I feel after the third dash his lungs had been almost able to explode.

‘We almost killed him these balls however he supplied the runs and the boys wished to move the ball, that's for certain one in every of his strengths. He was harmful, all these sorts of issues.

‘So Darwin, we are going to see. I feel his profile is a correct quantity 9 in order that’s useful with pace and aggression and utilizing his physique, all these sorts of issues.’

He continued: ‘Once you lose 4-0… if we speak concerning the recreation with out the consequence, we now have a whole lot of good issues to speak about from my crew.

‘But when we do it prefer it must be, not forgetting the consequence, then we now have to think about that we misplaced 4-0. So extra issues didn’t go too properly as a result of we made some errors – that’s regular. However we now have to pay the worth for that and that’s what we did tonight.’

Liverpool will now fly to Singapore for the subsequent leg of their tour of Asia, with one other Premier League aspect – Crystal Palace – ready for them.

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