Crystal Palace defender Joachim Andersen enjoys a battle within a battle — and at Anfield in August came out the convincing winner of a good one, winding up Liverpool forward Darwin Nunez to the point of inducing a head loss, and a head-butt, from the Uruguayan, one that earned him a red card.
Afterwards, Andersen branded Nunez “really stupid”, but if the Swede made a fool of his rival and light work of that particular and all too literal tete-a-tete, then tonight could offer a more testing examination, as he steps up to what might just about be the boss level.
