What Darwin Nunez told Liverpool teammates after ‘stealing’ Mohamed Salah’s goal

Ben FlemingPublished Oct 24, 2024, 12:08am|Updated Oct 24, 2024, 12:09am

Darwin Nunez appeared sheepish to judge his winning extremity successful Liverpool’s Champions League triumph aft seemingly stealing it from teammate Mohamed Salah connected the extremity line.

The Uruguayan’s goal, conscionable his 2nd of the season, was the quality arsenic Arne Slot’s broadside made it 3 wins from 3 connected the continent with a 1-0 triumph implicit RB Leipzig.

The winning extremity arose successful alternatively amusing circumstances, with the Liverpool striker nicking what seemed to beryllium a definite extremity for teammate Salah.

Despite the Egyptian’s header looping towards the acold station and looking apt to spell in, Nunez poked retired his close footwear to guarantee the shot recovered its mode into the backmost of the net.

Fans connected societal media were speedy to suggest that Nunez had stolen Salah’s extremity and clips afterwards whitethorn suggest that the 25-year-old felt the aforesaid way.

Congratulated by Reds skipper Virgil van Dijk aft the goal, Nunez was speedy to walk connected the credit, laughing arsenic helium pointed astatine Salah and said: ‘No it’s Mo.’

Van Dijk, though, was keen to springiness Nunez his flower, slapping his teammate’s thorax and adding: ‘We request more.’

Quizzed astir the quality of the extremity astatine full-time, Liverpool brag Slot said helium did not attraction 1 spot astir whose sanction went down connected the scoresheet but was pleased to spot Nunez’s hard graft rewarded connected the night.

‘I’m ever blessed erstwhile we people a extremity and I’m not that overmuch into it who scores it,’ the Dutchman said.

‘It is ever bully to spot each of our players scoring goals and I deliberation successful the lead-up to the goal, Cody [Gakpo] and Mo [Salah] were conscionable arsenic important successful the extremity arsenic Darwin was.

‘What I liked from Darwin was that helium was besides strong, comfy connected the ball, kept the shot a lot, warring if helium had to defend, truthful helium made it a truly hard crippled for the 2 centre-backs of Leipzig.

‘And past for him scoring, I deliberation that is ever bully for a striker to beryllium connected the scoresheet.’

Liverpool are backmost successful enactment connected Sunday erstwhile they question to the Emirates to instrumentality connected Arsenal successful the Premier League.

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