DARWIN NUNEZ ON LIST OF WORST PREMIER LEAGUE FINISHERS THIS SEASON BEEN OWNED BY THEIR XG

It’s early days but these guys are taking a lot of shots without scoring a lot of goals. In fact, Darwin Nunez is the only man to score at all… 10) Odsonne Edouard (Crystal Palace) Expected goals: 0.9 Actual goals: 0 The Frenchman has now lost his place in the Palace starting XI, with Patrick Vieira deciding that a goal against Oxford United in the Carabao Cup was simply not enough. 9) Joelinton (Newcastle United) Expected goals: 0.9 Actual goals: 0 Now magically a brilliant midfielder, but he still can’t shoot for sh*t. He had three attempts in the frustrating 0-0 draw with Crystal Palace without a single one troubling the goalkeeper. 8) Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) Expected goals: 0.9 Actual goals: 0 And the whole of that 0.9 came against Chelsea, when Vardy really should have opened his account for the season. He was dropped for the 5-2 thwacking by Brighton. 7) Christian Eriksen (Manchester United) Expected goals: 1.0 Actual goals: 0 This basically. HOW DID THAT STAY OUT! 🤯pic.twitter.com/83u32cQLGH — Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) August 27, 2022 6) Darwin Nunez (Liverpool) Expected goals: 2.0 Actual goals: 1 The only man on the list to have actually scored a Premier League goal, but it’s the chances he has missed that will haunt him (as well as that daft red card). Taking 15 shots in just 175 minutes is really quite extraordinary, by the way. 5) Danny Welbeck (Brighton) Expected goals: 1.1 Actual goals: 0 No goals but the one game he started on the bench was the one game Brighton lost, so let that be a lesson to the new Brighton boss if he gets hold of the daft notion that goals are actually important. 4) Joe Willock (Newcastle United) Expected goals: 1.4 Actual goals: 0 Willock missed a blinding chance against Wolves while he also hooked a very presentable chance wide as Newcastle battered at the door in vain at Palace. This is why they have spent big money on Alexander Isak. 3) Patrick Bamford (Leeds United) Expected goals: 1.5 Actual goals: 0 How the f*** did he miss that chance against Brentford? 2) Solly March (Brighton) Expected goals: 1.8 Actual goals: 0 He has taken more shots (17) than any other Brighton player this season. Brighton that. It’s a bloody good job Alexis Mac Allister and Pascal Gross know where the goal is. 1) Son Heung-min (Tottenham) Expected goals: 1.9 Actual goals: 0 Last season’s Golden Boot winner now has shoes made of paper. He has taken 17 shots without scoring a goal for Tottenham and is surely no longer undroppable. Maybe the poor fella just needs a rest.

And Suarez – who was never far from controversy in his three-year spell at Anfield – has warned Nunez that Premier League defenders “will be seeking him out” even more from now on and urged his compatriot not to rise to the bait. “I talked to him because he is just starting out, and I wanted to make him aware that from now on [opponents] will be seeking him out twice or three times more often,” the Uruguayan international said during an interview with Telemundo. “Even more so in England. He’s hearing this from an idiot who made mistakes and suffered for them, but falling down and getting up again made me stronger. “Don’t give them any more chances, it’ll only get worse.” Nunez will miss Liverpool’s next three matched against Manchester United, Bournemouth and Newcastle, and Suarez was frequently suspended in his time with the Reds. He was given an eight-game ban for racially abusing United left-back Patrice Evra and a four-month ban for biting Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup before he moved to Barcelona. Nunez was successfully wound up by Andersen, and will now be given similarly physical treatment when he returns to action. His suspension has compounded issues for Jurgen Klopp, whose squad has been decimated by injury. Suarez insists his “very smart” international teammate will recover from the red card, informing him that the English media “make a big deal out of everything.” He said: “Darwin is someone who listens a lot. “He is very smart that way and I think he will try to turn this situation around. “It’s not a big deal, we have all made mistakes, we have all been sent off. “The problem is that he’s only just arrived over there and in England, to put it lightly, they make a big deal out of everything.” Suarez and Nunez are set to team up at the Qatar World Cup in November, where Uruguay will face Portugal, Ghana and South Korea in the group stage.