Virgil van Dijk says it all with his reaction to Darwin Nunez's match-winning Liverpool brace

Darwin Nunez came disconnected the seat to occurrence Liverpool to triumph distant astatine Brentford and skipper Virgil van Dijk was asked astir the Uruguay planetary aft the win

Darwin Nunez came up trumps for Liverpool successful their triumph astatine Brentford connected Saturday, and skipper Virgil van Dijk recognised the striker's brace volition assistance soundlessness critics for the clip being.

Nunez has had a pugnacious clip successful beforehand of extremity this term, with Arne Slot utilizing him sparingly from the commencement of matches. He started connected the seat erstwhile much astatine Brentford, but entered the fray for the last half-hour arsenic a substitute for Luis Diaz.

The erstwhile Benfica prima spurned a mates of aboriginal half-chances, see 1 ambitious effort from the borderline of the container which ended up mode disconnected target. With the timepiece ticking towards full-time, though, helium was connected manus to crook Trent Alexander-Arnold's transverse beyond Mark Flekken to interruption the deadlock.

A 2nd Nunez extremity followed soon after, and a acold much emphatic 1 astatine that. Speaking aft the win, skipper Van Dijk made his feelings precise clear.

"You person to gain these things," Van Dijk said. "As a striker you get judged connected goals particularly astatine a nine similar Liverpool. Today helium enactment his people connected the game. Very important. We request everyone astatine their best. Today was his day."

When asked if helium thought Liverpool were astatine their best, the skipper said: "I deliberation so, yeah. Don't you deliberation so?". Despite needing the afloat 90 minutes to interruption down their opponents, they ended the lucifer with a whopping 37 shots.

"They [Brentford] person a precise wide structure," helium continued. "You effort to interruption a debased artifact down and if you suffer the shot sometimes you tin get a counter-attack connected you. They make immoderate information moments. They make them against immoderate squad successful the league. We handled it good and could person scored more.

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Goalkeeper Alisson besides praised Nunez aft the victory. ""This shows his prime and however important helium is for this team," the Brazilian told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"Sometimes we didn't triumph games due to the fact that we cannot decorativeness that mode wrong of the box, but contiguous Darwin did truly good not lone with the goals but with his cognition and the mode helium fights for each ball. You tin accidental helium doesn't people excessively overmuch this season, but helium is moving hard everyday."

Nunez present has six goals for the season, including 4 successful the Premier League. He ended past play with 11 successful the league and 18 successful each competitions, but the past of those came connected April 4 against Sheffield United.

The triumph astatine Brentford was a large 1 for Liverpool, who had drawn their erstwhile 2 matches successful the league. It sent them 7 points wide of second-placed Arsenal up of the Gunners' location lucifer against Aston Villa successful the 5.30pm kick-off.

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