Liverpool ensured they signed off for the World Cup with four successive victories in all competitions, with their latest coming over Southampton on Saturday. It was a well-deserved three points but you have to give Southampton credit because their new manager, Nathan Jones, came to Anfield and gave it a go. They didn’t sit back, they tried to hit us and had men forward and made it a decent game. I said before Saturday that I fancied us as long as the strikers did their job, and both Nunez and Firmino did just that. That’s always been the case: when our forwards are lethal we will win games, even though we’re not defending as well as we have done over the last four or five years.
I’ve always liked Nunez ’s movement, even when I watched him play at Benfica. But the thing that impressed me recently is that he’s playing out of position. He’s a centre-forward but he’s being asked to do the Sadio Mane role and it’s taken him a couple of games to get used to it, but at Tottenham and against Southampton he was brilliant. He’s got the license to get into the box as well as a centre-forward too; where he got his second goal from. It’s not an easy role to play because you have to cover Andy Robertson and get back, but - to be fair - he’s doing it really, really well which is a bonus because it’s not his natural position.
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