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Mohamed Salah piling on pressure on Liverpool and what Darwin Nunez needs is clear

Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez in action for Liverpool
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Liverpool made it look so easy against West Ham in the end. And with the chances we had, in the first half especially, we could have won by so much more. It’s constantly brilliant, just absolutely brilliant.

Of course, there were a couple of little moments in the game but that’s always going to happen. It was a fantastic performance and a fantastic result. Going to the capital twice in the space of a week, scoring six at Tottenham and five at West Ham, knowing you should have scored even more, it’s not bad at all, is it?

Mohamed Salah could have had a hat-trick, but we’re saying that after every game at the moment.

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But he’s still getting in there, he keeps getting in there. He’s getting in where the chances are and he’s creating them for people and making them for himself too.

The trickery for his assist for Cody Gakpo against West Ham was amazing. He’s certainly doing his contract talks no harm at all! He’s just constantly putting pressure on the club all of the time.

Whatever the thinking is with what’s going on, you’re running out of superlatives for him. I just hope he keeps on going and performing like this, doesn’t get injured and wins the Premier League Golden Boot.

I think that will actually be a massive aim for him this season now. Man City are hiccupping and Erling Haaland isn’t really scoring as many as he used to. It is a great opportunity for him.

And he looks fresh all the time too. We know he’s not in his twenties but he is playing like he is. You wouldn’t look at him on the pitch and think he was in his thirties, the way he keeps on playing. He looks like a spring chicken.

Touch wood, he’s a player that doesn’t get injured. Keep him fresh, keep him fit. He’s still hungry and we’ve got an excellent chance of getting what we’ve wanted for a while this year in terms of trophies.

Goals galore - but there’s something about Darwin

All the strikers are scoring. Diaz, Gakpo, Salah. Diaz comes off the defenders, they don’t know whether to come with him or stay. He’s a fighter, he fights for every ball. He causes mayhem. And when he’s in full flow, you can’t stop him.

And when you have Gakpo offering something different too, cutting inside, but he’s a hard worker and works hard on his game. Technically, he’s become very, very good this year. What he’s bringing to the team is very impressive.

Jota came on and scored too. That’s brilliant for the manager. That’s why you buy strikers and you play strikers - for them to score goals. If they create goals, that’s a bonus.

But you want them to score goals. You look at the stats, and I’m not really one for stats, the goals per game ratio for them all is right up there because they all want to play. Mo plays every game but the rest are really challenging each other.

The manager is chopping and changing the games that they play and he is doing it really well, he’s saving their legs. They’re all responding well because they’ve got the desire to want to play all the games.

They’re going out knowing they have to score or they have to create. And they want to score and they want to create to keep their place. It’s great competition.

We just need Darwin Nunez to now take some chances, especially with the cup games coming up. Nunez is going to get his opportunities in those three cup games and he’s got to score.

He’s got to replicate what the other four attackers are doing. He has to because that’s his job. If he creates, that’s all well and good.

But if you have four strikers all scoring nearly every game, he’s got to contend against them and show he can do it as well. Whatever pressure he is putting on himself, he has to do it, end of story. He has to start doing it.

Chiesa curiosity

I don’t really know what’s going on with Federico Chiesa. We’ve only seen him in one game. Again, the two Tottenham games and Accrington Stanley are an opportunity for him. He’s got to get game-time against them.

If he doesn’t get game-time there, then there is something amiss. We don’t know what’s going on with him so we can’t really question it. We’ll just have to see what happens.

Yes, he’s being linked with a return to Italy but we don’t know the story. Everyone is surmising but we’ll just have to wait and see.

Even if it doesn’t work out, the club only paid £10m-£12m for him. They’ll get that back anyway from an Italian club if he does leave.

But we don’t want that. We want to see him in a red shirt, doing well, scoring goals and creating chances.