Jurgen klopp praised the impact of ‘outstanding’ darwin nunez in liverpool’s win over fulham. After winning the carabao cup semi-final first-leg victory at anfield, the reds are now 90 minutes away from winning the world cup. For the home side, it was not all sailing, with willian opening the scoring for the cottagers in the 19th minute. Liverpool really burst into life when klopp introduced nunez and cody gakpo in the 56th minute. Nunez ran amok and assisted curtis jones’ equalizer, before gakpo’s intervention was sparked by his cross from the byline. Fulham keeper bernd leno saved the uruguay international two attempts.
Nunez would have started the match if he hadn’t suffered cramp after last weekend’s 2-0 fa cup victory over arsenal. Klopp lauded his cameo. “he does a great job,” liverpool manager gerard pogba said to reporters. There are so many things about the game that i love it. He adapted to the new year, and he scored here and there. But now the contribution in games… he should have started tonight, but he got cramps in the last game, so three days later you don’t start a player. Because they score or not score, the boys don’t start or stop. As long as they act correctly, my faith and faith in them is unwavering, because they just deserve it because of the hard work they put in. “that you can bring cody and darwin from the bench is a good thing.” On top of that, we updated the whole system, organization, and setup. All of a sudden, the high press was no longer run, we had problems there, we tried to fix it from outside, and then all of a sudden, protection was lost because we changed a few things. But the offensive situations were much better, and it was good, and he’s a big part of it.”
