‘If I fall, I get up’ – but what do stats say about Nunez?
On Thursday, Nunez posted on social media: “If I fall, I get up. You’ll never see me give up. I’m going to give it my all until the last day I’m here in Liverpool. Resilience!”
But do the numbers suggest the Uruguay international can still play a pivotal role for Liverpool going forward?
Nunez, who was heavily link with คาสิโนออนไลน์ UFABET ฝากถอนรวดเร็ว เริ่มต้นเล่นง่าย a move to the Saudi Pro League in January, is now in his third full season at Anfield since joining from Portuguese side Benfica on a six-year-deal.
- In that time he has scored 39 goals in 131 appearances – an average of one every 182 minutes
- But the data suggests he has 13 fewer goals than would be expected, with an overall xG of 52.4.
- Nunez has missed just short of one big chance per Premier League game (0.99) since his debut in the competition
Liverpool signed Nunez following an excellent 2021-22 campaign. Which he scored 34 times in 41 appearances for Benfica. Including against the Reds in both legs of their Champions League quarter-final.
But that remains an outlier in the 25-year-old’s career to date as the only season in which the striker has overperformed his xG in league competition.
- His tally of 26 league goals in 2021-22 was eight more than expected, achieved with an impressive – and since unmatched – shot conversion rate of 30.6%.
- Last season, Nunez had an xG underperformance of -5.4 in the Premier League, a decline on -2.4xG in his first campaign.
- While he has four league goals from an xG of 4.0 this season, his shot conversion rate of 10.3% across all competitions is vastly inferior to that of Liverpool’s other established forward players such as Mohamed Salah (22.3%), Cody Gakpo (22.2%) and Luis Diaz (21%), who have each also made at least 35 appearances in 2024-25.