A matter of hours after the news cycle was awash with the near confirmation of Liverpool’s record-breaking acquisition of Eintracht Frankfurt’s Hugo Ekitiké, Darwin Núñez reminded the club that they do have a No. 9.
Núñez rattled in a 14-minute first-half hat-trick during a 5–0 friendly thumping of Stoke City at Liverpool’s AXA training centre on Sunday afternoon. The behind-closed-doors affair was effectively over as a competitive contest within the opening exchanges.
