Darwin Nunez put his hand up for a penalty, and for that you must give the Liverpool forward a fair amount of credit.But there was a sense of inevitability about his miss against PSG — which some feel is reflected in the reaction of Mohamed Salah.
The sole reason that Nunez still gets so much patience from the Anfield faithful is that he will always show for the ball.
Indeed, every single Liverpool supporter would take another season of 32-year-old Salah over Nunez in a heartbeat.
Liverpool did the right thing by keeping Nunez in January, a move which in its own way was show of ambition.But after slotting away his own penalty, the optics of the Egyptian's reaction after Nunez fluffed his lines were not especially positive.
In new fan footage, Virgil van Dijk can be seen breaking away from the group to come and console Nunez.An early Champions League exit stacks the odds in favor of some of his rivals.
But you can't help but wonder if the chronic lack of confidence in Nunez has spread from the fans to his teammates