Slot praises Nunez after impressive form

Arne Slot praised Darwin Nunez for how he has filled the boots of the absent Diogo Jota for Liverpool

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00:00No, I think about Darwin I gave him credit for the fact that he worked so hard in previous weeks

00:07where he didn't play a lot to be able to play three times in a row in I think three games in eight days.

00:14So that says a lot about him, but it also says a lot about the quality of our performance staff and medical staff.

00:19That we were able to give him the right sessions, to prepare him in the right way.

00:25But you always need the player to buy in because you can give him the right sessions

00:29but if he doesn't give everything then it's very difficult for him to do what he did.

00:34Also with him it was a good thing that his ban for the Uruguay team was cancelled

00:42so he could play their two games. That helped probably as well for him to play the way he did.

00:47And I'm not talking about the quality he played with, but the intensity he played with.

00:51And the quality was also good.

00:54So there was a positive thing. Yeah, it is a pity that Diogo Jota is not available

01:00and Federico Chiesa is also not available because they were, in my opinion, the most logical number nines.

01:05Maybe not in yours, but still we have some other options with the ones you just said.