It was almost as if the West Ham United supporters were goading Darwin Nunez into action.
The Liverpool striker was lining up for a first-half corner when away end burst into a chant that suggested he was, to put it politely, merely an inferior version of former Hammers and Anfield marksman Andy Carroll.
They weren’t the first set of rival fans to make such an assertion. But, as is becoming increasingly true of many of Nunez’s critics, their observations were soon made to look somewhat foolish as the Uruguayan gave further proof of why the Reds have committed to paying a potential club record £85million for his services.
