Right foot, left foot, penalty, header! Hit the post four times in the game, Nunez, you resign yourself to it
'Obviously, the opponent was a lot better than us, we lost every duel and every time we took one or two touches to get the ball back. As Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino said, the Red-Blue Premier League clash in the early hours of 1 February was one-sided – at Anfield, Liverpool comfortably crushed Chelsea 4-1.
But Pochettino had to be thankful that Liverpool had a Nunez up front, so the score was less glaring.
Nunez hit the post four times.
Four times the goalpost, resign yourself to your fate
In the 8th, 18th, 45th and 75th minutes of the game, Nunez's shot hit the crossbar or post four times, including a penalty.
With such a big quadruple, the Uruguayan striker became the first player in the Premier League to hit the woodwork four times in a single game since statistics began (2003-2004).
If Mihajnovic's hat-trick from a free-kick was a shocking thing, now Nunez has gone down in history in a special way.
In terms of outrageousness, only Palermo was slightly better than his predecessor – in the 1999 Copa America, the Argentine striker scored three penalties against Colombia.
A look back at Nunez's four-shot goal – the first goal, he was on the end of a team-mate's through shot, goalkeeper Petrovic couldn't reach it, but it hit the crossbar just right. Regretful!
In the second goal, after Liverpool played, Nunez hit it quickly and volleyed into the far corner, but it hit the right post, but alas!
In the third goal, Jota was tripped in the box, and this time it was a certainty?Nunez's penalty hit the right post again, oops!
In the fourth goal, Liverpool went down on the left side, and Nunez, who was inserted behind, met the ball with a header when no one was defending, there should always be it, it's the crossbar again, accept your fate!
Nunez missed chances on a number of occasions.
Top scorer at the goalpost
The four goals, Nunez's right foot, left foot, penalty, and header, almost tried their best, but they were all in close contact with the goal frame, and in addition to bad luck, it made people feel evil.
It is worth mentioning that Nunez has his own "goal-frame physique", and he was at the top of the list of players who hit the goal-frame last season, when he had 84 shots in 5 shots, and he was behind Son Heung-min (81 shots in 5 goal-frames) due to "efficiency problems".
At the end of last year, a statistic showed that Nunez was the second-most player in the Premier League with 10 games in the frame, with 10 of 42 games, second only to Liverpool's predecessor Suarez's 37.
With the full force of this game, Nunez not only has unprecedented single-game statistics, plus the previous 5 times he hit the goal frame, he is far ahead of the rest of the Premier League players with 9 hits to the goal frame (the second-ranked player only has 3 hits to the goal frame), and has locked the Premier League's "top scorer in the goal frame" in advance without any suspense.
Nunez thanked the fans.
He really just lacked luck
Of course, in a way, Nunez is also improving.
In his first season at Liverpool, Nunez was a laughing stock in the eyes of the media and fans for his accuracy in shooting – he was often able to snatch the chance to shoot with his excellent movement and strong body.
But a mid-season statistic also showed that Nunez's conversion rate from shot to goal was extremely low, with Nunez's conversion rate of just 9.1 per cent of the players who have shot more than 30 times in the Premier League this season, the fifth-lowest rate.
Now it seems that Nunez is constantly adjusting himself, after all, it is only a line between hitting the woodwork and scoring a goal.
He has seven league goals so far and, if he's lucky, nine in the woodwork, 16 goals would have surpassed the current top scorers in the charts, Erling Haaland (14) and Mohamed Salah (14).
Even Jurgen Klopp was a little unbelievable after the game, and after his 200th Premier League win, he said: "Nunez is in great form, it's just bad luck. ”