Darwin Núñez put in the kind of performance on Thursday that will make Liverpool fans feel awfully good about their star summer signing.
The Uruguayan forward came off the bench after halftime and scored four goals over the final 45 minutes in Liverpool’s 5–0 preseason rout of RB Leipzig. A day after Sadio Mané unofficially opened his account for Bayern Munich, his purported replacement made a statement of his own.
It started with a penalty kick, which Mohamed Salah, scorer of Liverpool’s first goal, offered to Núñez to take. That seemed to open the floodgates for the former Benfica sensation, who scored his second just three minutes later after being played in behind with a short layoff pass from Trent Alexander-Arnold and finishing from inside the Leipzig box.