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Alan Shearer says Liverpool have a player whose ‘confidence is shot’ right now

Charles Jones

Fri 21 February 2025 8:55, UK

Liverpool drew 2-2 with Aston Villa on Wednesday evening, and the big story out of this game surrounded Darwin Nunez.

Darwin Nunez missed an absolute sitter against Villa as Liverpool dropped points and the gap in th✨e title race closed ever so ꦗslightly.

Position	Team	Played MP	Won W	Drawn D	Lost L	For GF	Against GA	Diff GD	Points Pts
1	LiverpoolLiverpool	26	18	7	1	62	26	36	61
2	ArsenalArsenal	25	15	8	2	51	22	29	53
3	Nottm ForestNottingham Forest	25	14	5	6	41	29	12	47
4	Man CityManchester City	25	13	5	7	52	35	17	44

Nunez missed a serious sitter against Villa, and, sadly, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this from the Urug🎃uayan.

Indeed, Nu🔴nez’s finishing has been criticised before, and speaking on The Rest is Football, Alan Shearer has been discussing th🦩e forward.

Shearer says that Nunez’s confiden💯ce looks shot at the moment, and that his finishinꦏg always looks erratic.

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Alan Shearer says Darwin Nunez’s confidence is shot

Shearer spoke about Nunez and his current issues.

According to the pundit, Nune🅺z isn’t a natural finisher, and to make matters worse, he’s seriously lacking confidence rig෴ht now.

Nunez has been linked with a Liverpool exit rece🍬ntly, and he could🍒 well be on his way out this summer.

“Yeah. You see him miss the number of chances that he does, unfortunately, for him and for Liverpool, but he’s never going to be a natural finisher,’ Sheare♔r said༒.

“Yeah, very erratic. Very erratic. He never looks composed when he’s about to have his shot or 🌄confident, and he always looks off balance.

“I suppose whe💧n your confidence is shot, then you are off balance, I guess. But yeah, what an absolute sitter, unfortunately.”

Darwin Nunez’s Benfica scoring record

It is strange to see Nunez struggling so much in front of goal over the past three🦂 years, because when he🐈 was at Benfica he was scoring for fun.

Indeed, Nunez had a remarkable goalscoring record over in Portugal, but, for some reason, that hasn’t translated over to t🔴he Premier League.

The size of the goals hasn’t cha🍸nged, and Nunez is still getting tons of chances, but, for some reason, he just can’t seem to finish these 🦩days.

As ꧅Shearer says, this is clearly a confidence issue, and it’s something we’ve seen on a number of occasions in the past.

Timo Werner used to score tons of goals꧅ in Germany, but ever since arriving in England, Werner has been terri🌃ble in front of goal

Werner’s confidence has been an issue in 🦹recent times, and Nunez is🎐 in the same sort of position at Liverpool now.