Perhaps the most damning part of Darwin Nunez’s glaring second-half miss at Aston Villa on Wednesday night was that no one was really surprised. Earlier in the game Diogo Jota had bobbled the ball across the box for Mohamed Salah to finish and you just knew the net would bulge. But when Dominik Szoboszlai squared to Nunez, with the goal yawning wide, expectations were lower. As the ball sailed into the Holte End, the ironic jeers were all too familiar.
Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk put it diplomatically when he said after the 2-2 draw: “We should have scored a third goal.”
