Jurgen Klopp said he “could not care less” that Darwin Nunez squandered an open goal as Liverpool battered Toulouse 5-1 in the Europa League.
With Liverpool in cruise control at 3-1, Nunez was slipped through on goal and clinically beat the Toulouse centre-back Rasmus Nicolaisen before rounding the keeper to only skew an effort off the post.
Ryan Gravenberch- who was arguably Liverpool’s best player on the pitch- was on hand to collect the rebound and show the composure that his teammate lacked to pass the ball in for four, with Mohamed Salah adding a fifth off the bench.
Klopp was not worried about the performance of Nunez despite his ludicrous miss as Liverpool moved closer to the knockout stages of the Europa League.
Klopp said: “Honestly, in this moment, I couldn’t care less that he hits the post in that moment because everything before was super convincing, was absolutely clear, how he took the defender away, how he passed the goalie. It was a perfect situation.”
“He played really good. The goal he scored, the situation he was involved in, dropping into midfield, staying on the ball, all these kind of things.
“There were a lot of good things, and he is in a good moment and that’s for us obviously important. I’m really pleased for him with the performance.
“And yes, it’s a bit of slapstick that the ball doesn’t go in, and Ryan finished it off and it’s cool. But I said before the game he is a happy boy, or man, at the moment and you can see that every day and we know we have to make sure that it stays like that.”
The Uruguayan, alongside Gravenberch and Wataru Endo, were the standout players at Anfield as Liverpool won their third straight game in the competition to create a five-point gap at the top of Group E.
