Sometimes it feels as if the lottery numbers are easier to predict than what Darwin Nunez will do next

The Liverpool striker scored two show-stopping goals in the 5-1 win over Sparta Prague last week and set the ball rolling on a four-goal blitz inside the opening quarter-hour tonight.

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Darwin Nunez missed an absolute sitter – but laughed it off with Liverpool 4-0 up on the night

Buoyed by scoring 11 goals in nine games (including this one), the Uruguayan was presented with another opportunity to add to that tally just after the half-hour mark.

When Salah made an excellent pass across the box in the direction of Nunez who was just a couple of yards in front of the goal in the 35th minute.

However, the opportunity that seemed too obvious to miss somehow went skyward – leading to the Uruguayan forward to laugh it off, and thank his teammate for the excellent ball.

As he turned away, he simply smiled and laughed, knowing that if ever there was a time to miss an absolute sitter, doing so with a 9-1 aggregate lead is it. We can’t help but have a little chuckle ourselves at the nonchalance of it all, and we suspect you might too

Jurgen Klopp wouldn’t normally be so blase about Darwin Nunez missing a close-range effort in European competition.

With the Uruguayan having netted once already – and with the Reds importantly 9-2 up on aggregate against Sparta Prague – the German could afford to laugh off the moment.

It’s becoming a decidedly rare instance, of course, for our talismanic No.9, who has now found the net on 17 different occasions in the 2023/24 season