Why Salah & Nunez Are Misfiring For Liverpool – Klopp

The manager of Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp, has provided an explanation for the misfiring of Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah, highlighting a crucial area that requires work.

The Reds’ hopes of winning the Premier League title have begun to wane, and they have also been eliminated from the Europa League. Klopp’s farewell tour, which is scheduled to conclude in the summer before he leaves Anfield, could end badly.

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Salah and Nunez have had chances of late to keep the Liverpool fires burning, but both have surprisingly fluffed their lines on a regular basis. That was the case once again as the Reds drew a blank in a 2-0 Merseyside derby defeat to Everton.

With Nunez without a goal in six and Salah finding the target just twice through his last seven appearances, Klopp has told reporters of why those struggles are being endured and how the tide could turn quickly: “It’s tricky. Strikers have to go through these things. That’s how it is. That’s a striker’s life. A goalkeeper’s life is make 500 saves, then one howler – and everybody talks about this. A striker’s life is you score all the time, then you don’t score for a while and then everybody asks why you don’t score. It can be the most difficult thing in the world and sometimes it’s the easiest thing in the world, depending on what chance you get. We had good chances against Everton but again we were a bit in a rush in finishing them off. So create again, create again and try and get in the right positions to finish the situations off. It will be a really rich man or woman who can write that book [on a striker getting back to their best]. You have to go through it. I try to help them speeding it up. That says nothing about the quality of the boys.”

Salah still has 24 goals this season, moving above 200 goals for Liverpool overall, and the mysterious Nunez of Uruguay is only two goals short of 20 goals in all competitions. When they travel to West Ham on Saturday, they will both be looking to get back into the swing of things.