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Arne Slot sent Liverpool's misfiring striker Darwin Nunez a pointed message in his pre-Manchester City press conference.

Nunez had only been on the pitch a couple of minutes during Wednesday night's 2-2 draw at Aston Villa when he raced onto Dominik Szoboszlai's pass across the face of goal and skied the ball into the stands.

And Slot believes the £85m striker "got too much in his head" after the miss and admitted "he wasn't the usual Darwin that works his backside off."

Slot said: "I can accept every miss, especially from a player who scored 2 very important goals v Brentford.

It's not about the chance, it is the 20 mins after it I want to talk to Darwin about."

Liverpool were forced to settle for a point in Birmingham as they missed the chance to go 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League table.

The Darwin Nunez miss.

“If you go away to Villa, that’s always a difficult fixture.

At the start of the season you know: ‘Villa away, that’s a difficult one, City away, that’s a difficult one.’ So ­performance-wise, not a dip at all today, in my opinion, but you might disagree.

“What we must not do and we’ve done a bit too often now, is we don’t get what we deserve.
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