Imagine this scenario: in the eighth minute of the game against Brentford on 2 January, Darwin Nunez received Mohamed Salah’s pass, beat goalkeeper David Raya and tapped in to put Liverpool in a quick lead.
Or imagine this: in the first half of the game against Brighton on 14 January, Salah picked up Jordan Henderson’s pass, slipped past a marker and fired the ball steadily past goalkeeper Robert Sanchez’s mark.
Or maybe what if right before half-time, Nunez passes to Salah in the Wolves match? Maybe it settled the chances he got from Trent Alexander-Arnold in the second half?
It’s just a if, if, maybe… but no one can deny that Liverpool has many opportunities not to be in the current situation. They have lost seven times in the Premier League this season and in all of them they had a real chance of picking up points, but again and again finishing and/or poor final third decision-making obliterates those opportunities at crucial moments.
Goals can change games, and The Reds not very good at producing goals. Excluding a 9-0 win over Bournemouth earlier in the season, they have scored just 25 goals in 20 league appearances, level with Aston Villa and fewer than Leeds who sacked their manager this Monday (6/2) for fear of falling deeper into the Premier League. degradation.
Only six times have Liverpool scored first in the league this season. The struggle is clearly more difficult if you keep conceding first.
It’s up to Salah, Nunez, and co to change that. Immediately.
