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Gary Neville has made a claim about Darwin Nunez which he has suggested he would never normally make after Liverpool were beaten in the Merseyside derby on Wednesday night.

The Reds were completely outfought by the Toffees on a night where the importance of the game was abundantly clear to everyone, including Jurgen Klopp.

Klopp recalled the likes of Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez to the starting lineup after taking them out of the team which faced Fulham at the weekend.

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“We watched Nicolas Jackson last night, young man who’s been criticised heavily in the last four days because of the chances he’s missed, but Darwin Nunez is missing as big, if not bigger chances, and with a bigger price-tag,” he said.

“And that one in the first-half, I don’t really ever go at players for missing chances, I’ve never felt, to be fair, because of the position I played in, worthy of being able to do so, but I think if you spoke to any striker, if that was a striker in my team that had missed, I’d be fuming.

That is a really bad miss, it was as simple as putting the ball in the back of the net should be for a striker at this level.”

Nunez has scored 11 goals in the Premier League this season.

But only two players in the Premier League are performing worse against their non-penalty expected goals tally this season, according to FBRef, with Nunez now jumping ahead of Erling Haaland in the standings.

You get the feeling that Neville would not be anywhere near as scathing had Nunez not missed so many chances throughout the season, but that could be a massive moment in Liverpool’s season; a moment where the big players need to step up.