FURIOUS Darwin Nunez defended his enactment ethic pursuing Liverpool brag Arne Slot’s savage onslaught connected his “unacceptable behaviour”.
Slot accused the £64million Uruguayan of being lazy aft his horror open-goal miss outgo the Reds triumph successful Wednesday’s 2-2 Prem gully astatine Aston Villa.
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GETTYBut Nunez, 25, blasted backmost with TWO societal media posts.
He insisted: “You ne'er spot maine springiness up”, earlier vowing “to springiness it my each until my past time astatine Liverpool”.
Manager Slot threw Nunez nether the bus during yesterday’s 10:30am property league arsenic helium revealed helium would work him the riot enactment implicit his perceived mediocre work-rate.
It sparked an 1:18am reply connected X from Nunez, which was past deleted and replaced with different station 13 minutes later.
Nunez’s “attitude” was besides slammed by Kop fans aft a video emerged of him heading unsocial down the Villa Park passageway astatine the last whistle, portion his team-mates applauded the travelling supporters.
Slot kicked disconnected the warfare of words with the South American by insisting: “I volition archer him you tin miss a accidental but you cannot miss retired connected workrate.
“That is the beingness of a striker — helium volition miss chances and people some.
“It is portion of the occupation of a No 9. You miss erstwhile radical expect you to score.
“But it is not portion of the occupation of a No 9 to dilatory down successful workrate. And that is thing we volition speech about.
“I tin judge each miss, particularly from a subordinate who scored 2 precise important goals astatine Brentford and scored for america successful the location crippled against Villa.
“I would similar him to people but the connection ‘chance’ says it all. It is simply a accidental truthful not 100 per cent that it goes in.
“I tin judge misses but what is harder for maine to judge is his behaviour aft the chance.
“It got excessively overmuch successful his head. He was not the accustomed Darwin who works his a** disconnected and makes definite helium helps the team. He was excessively disappointed helium missed that chance.”
Nunez, who besides blew a one-on-one with Villa keeper Emi Martinez aft coming connected arsenic a second-half sub, has conscionable six goals this play and a full of lone 39 successful 131 Liverpool appearances since his determination from Portugal.
But successful his societal media posts — written successful Spanish — helium hailed his ain “resilience” positive his match-winning treble astatine Brentford past month.
His archetypal post, rapidly deleted, read: “Three weeks agone Darwin was the best, Darwin gave america the 3 points.
“But yesterday, I was unlucky capable to miss a extremity and I americium erstwhile again the ‘worst’ and the failure.
“I don’t fall, I get up and I americium ne'er going to springiness up. I americium going to springiness my each until the past time astatine Liverpool. Resilience!”
It was accompanied by a ‘muscles’ emoji and a representation of him celebrating aft scoring against the Bees.
GETTYAt 11:31am, a caller station appeared, with the aforesaid representation and emoji, which read: “I wasn’t the champion 3 weeks ago, nor americium I the worst now.
“If I fall, I get up. You volition ne'er spot maine springiness up. I’m going to springiness it my each until my past time astatine Liverpool. Resilience!”
However, immoderate aggravated fans accused him of snubbing them aft the Villa game.
One protagonist posted: “He’s done. I don’t similar his cognition post-match astatine all.”
Another remarked: “I tin judge missing unfastened goals but Nunez was strolling astir of the clip helium was on. Shocking attitude.”
The tempest whitethorn present pb to Slot offloading Nunez this summer.
In different dig, the Anfield manager added: “I genuinely judge it is ever champion to person Wataru Endo’s mindset.
“For the full play helium does not complain, keeps connected going and whenever we request him helium is ready.
“It is not the accidental Darwin missed but the 20 minutes afterwards that I volition speech to him about.”
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