Arne Slot explains 'necessary' Liverpool change as star singled out after Bournemouth win

Three first-half goals - including a archetypal of the play for Uruguayan striker Darwin Nunez - helped Liverpool bushed Bournemouth to get backmost to winning ways successful the league

Liverpool manager Arne Slot was impressed by however his forwards person reacted to indispensable rotation aft the 3-0 triumph implicit Bournemouth, portion left-back Andy Robertson singled retired Darwin Nunez for peculiar praise.

Slot's squad were retired of show earlier half-time. Luis Diaz scored doubly successful speedy succession earlier Nunez curled successful a third, and a goalless 2nd fractional ensured. Summer signing Federico Chiesa was handed a Premier League debut from the seat precocious connected successful what proved to beryllium a comfy afternoon.

The triumph brings Liverpool level with league leaders Manchester City, who look Arsenal connected Sunday, and allowed them to enactment last weekend's decision to Nottingham Forest down them. While Diaz has started the play similar a bid for Slot's men, Nunez has been forced to hold for his archetypal extremity of the campaign.

It was the Uruguayan's archetypal successful much than 5 months astatine nine level, acknowledgment to a hard extremity to the erstwhile season, but lone a last-ditch clearance kept him from a brace. And Robertson was impressed not conscionable with Nunez's extremity but with the all-round performance.

"Really happy," the Scot told BBC Radio 5 Live. "Obviously past week it was disappointing, but we managed to bounce backmost Tuesday [against AC Milan] - it was astir getting backmost connected way successful the league.

"Darwin [Nunez] has had to beryllium patient. He has worked hard successful training, trying to get amended similar we each have. He has waited for his accidental and contiguous helium was excellent.

"Luis [Diaz] has started the play truly well, delighted for those two. He [Nunez] was waiting for his accidental and helium took it today."

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"Today was a bully crippled for us, though Bournemouth were successful the crippled arsenic well," Slot told beIN Sports. "It sounds a spot weird with a 3-0 triumph but they were joining the game.

When asked astir his team's extent successful attack, helium added "It's bully but it's besides indispensable and it's besides mean for a nine of our standards. Other clubs that we are successful contention with person the same... It's precise bully that adjacent if they don't play past the adjacent clip they are each implicit it again. They were assertive without the shot and they showed prime with the ball."

Asked specifically astir Nunez by Match of the Day, helium said: "We anticipation we are adding goals [to his game] due to the fact that that is what you request from a striker but this enactment complaint was truly good. We person a batch of bully players, a batch of competition, and arsenic agelong arsenic they support performing it is simply a precise bully happening for me."

Liverpool volition instrumentality to enactment successful midweek against West Ham successful the Carabao Cup. The Hammers, who mislaid astatine location to Chelsea connected Saturday, coincidentally bushed Bournemouth successful the erstwhile round. After that comes a travel to Wolves, who similar West Ham beryllium successful the bottommost fractional of the table. Liverpool tin lone bushed what's successful beforehand of them, though, and erstwhile Reds midfielder Danny Murphy was impressed by some teams astatine Anfield connected Saturday.

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