Jurgen Klopp responds to Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez’s scoring struggles

Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, has provided an explanation for the lack of play in Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah recent performances highlighting a crucial area that requires work. In addition to losing in the Europa League, the Reds have seen their hopes of winning the Premier League title dwindle, and Klopp’s farewell tour, which is scheduled to end in the summer before he leaves Anfield, could end badly.

Although Nunez and Salah have recently had opportunities to keep the Liverpool flames blazing bright, both have shockingly frequently messed up. That was the situation once more as the Reds blanked Everton 2-0 in a Merseyside derby.

With Nunez without a goal in six performances and Salah finding the target just twice through his last seven appearances, Klopp has told reporters of why those struggles are being endured and how the tide could turn quickly:

“It’s tricky. Strikers have to go through these things. That’s how it is. That’s a striker’s life. A goalkeeper’s life is make 500 saves, then one howler – and everybody talks about this. A striker’s life is you score all the time, then you don’t score for a while and then everybody asks why you don’t score.

“It can be the most difficult thing in the world and sometimes it’s the easiest thing in the world, depending on what chance you get. We had good chances against Everton but again we were a bit in a rush in finishing them off. So create again, create again and try and get in the right positions to finish the situations off.

“It will be a really rich man or woman who can write that book [on a striker getting back to their best]. You have to go through it. I try to help them speeding it up. That says nothing about the quality of the boys.”

Salah still has 24 goals this season, moving above 200 goals for Liverpool overall, and the mysterious Nunez of Uruguay is only two goals short of 20 goals in all competitions. When they travel to West Ham on Saturday, they will both be looking to get back into the swing of things.