Arne Slot has admitted he didn't want Darwin Nunez to shoot when he took aim from the edge of the penalty area
Slot though conceded it was ultimately a "good choice" from his striker who scored Liverpool's third goal of the afternoon against Bournemouth.
Luis Diaz opened the scoring for the hosts, finishing brilliantly into an empty net
The Colombian made it two less than two minutes later, rifling home from a tight angle after being picked out by Trent Alexander-Arnold
Nunez's goal, though, was the pick of the bunch, with the Uruguayan curling a superb effort into the far corner.
Slot
"My first instinct when he shot was ‘why does he shoot’,"
"I would have said ‘why don’t you keep on dribbling’ because he made the ball free and I think the defender was on the ground.
"But then it was a fraction of a second later when I saw the ball went in off the post and then I was I was like ‘okay, maybe you are a better football player than I was in the past’. So it was a good choice from him."
It was Nunez's first start under Slot and his first goal of the season.
while the striker's finish was impressive, the Dutchman was also full of praise for the defensive side of his game.
Slot "Of course, I play a striker because I like him to score goals,"
Slot said.
"I play a winger because I like them to assist and score goals because if you want to win a game you have to score goals.
“But it also helps if you keep a clean sheet and we just spoke about the lead up to both goals, Ibou was involved in this but, keeping a clean sheet, Darwin is also involved in this.
Asked how Nunez can establish himself as a consistent performer for the Reds,
Slot added:
"I think consistency you get by two things. You get it by work rate and you get it by team performance.
“If the team performance is not consistent it’s so difficult for an individual to be consistent as well so we just have to create our habits day by day on the training ground and in the games to get this consistency.
"That’s what we try to do every day . He showed today a good game and maybe he can show it on Wednesday again but let’s wait and see."
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