Goals against Fulham, West Ham United and Nottingham Forest were still registered during such a limited amount of game time but it's been another campaign of injury frustration for a player who has averaged just 19 Premier League games a season since his September 2020 move from Wolves.

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Nunez registered 11 times in the Premier League last term with an xG (Expected Goals) of 16.3, while this season, the figure stands at just 3.4 from the 20 appearances and seven starts.

The former Benfica man averaged exactly three shots a match during his 36 games last time out with a shooting accuracy of 43% compared to figures this term that stand at 1.25 per fixture and accuracy percentage of 40.

Just four of his 24 Premier League goals for the club have come this term and half of those arrived in stoppage time at Brentford last month.

Prior to Sunday's game, Diaz had started 10 of the previous 12 games as the makeshift No.9 and while the experiment started in explosive style, with a hat-trick against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, its returns have diminished considerably in recent weeks.

The 25-year-old is a player who, according to the Reds boss, is good enough to play for a club inside the top six of the Premier League?
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