In a key match in the 17th round of the English Premier League that ended in the early morning of December 18, Beijing time, Liverpool was forced to draw 0-0 at home by Manchester United, ending its proud record of winning all at home this season. In this game, Liverpool striker Nunez gave up an empty goal in the second half, which was criticized by the Reds legend Carragher.
In the 76th minute of the game, Liverpool played an attack on the right, Nunez won the ball and advanced to the middle, Dias followed up with a shot, two Manchester United defenders stepped forward to block, Onana also hit in place, Dias fell to the ground after making contact with multiple people.
At this point, in addition to Dias, Manchester United goalkeeper Onana and two defenders fell in the box. The ball just rolled slowly towards the bottom line, and there was no dead ball, and Nunez, who was next to him, had the speed to catch up, and made up for it in the face of the empty goal to complete the stunner.
But what is unbelievable is that Nunez gave up chasing the ball, but immediately raised his hand to signal to the referee that the Manchester United player had fouled, and when Nunez remembered to chase the ball, the Manchester United defender rushed to destroy it first. In response, Carragher angrily yelled at Nunez: "What are you doing when Nunez stops, run over and put the ball into an empty net to end the game!" (Just run across and put it into an empty net!)"
In this game, Nunez, who started the game, despite 4 key passes, had 2 shots on target and 0 shots on target, and despite his hard work, the Uruguayan center forward has repeatedly wasted good opportunities in recent games, and his performance seems to be back to the struggling stage of last season. His performance is clearly not worthy of it, and Liverpool has paid him a transfer fee of close to 100 million euros.