Darwin Nunez to miss crucial Liverpool fixture after controversial yellow card vs. Man United

Liverpool striker Darwin Nunez volition soon service a one-game suspension aft picking up a milestone yellowish paper successful their 2-2 gully with Manchester United astatine Anfield.

The Uruguay planetary unsurprisingly started connected the seat for the sojourn of the Red Devils, wherever Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz some held their places alongside Mohamed Salah successful attack.

While Gakpo and Salah some recovered the backmost of the nett successful the 2nd half, Diaz was mostly anonymous connected the day, and Arne Slot saw acceptable to present Nunez into the fray for the Colombian connected the hr mark.

However, Nunez besides failed to marque the desired impact, and the South American besides recovered himself successful Michael Oliver's publication for barging into Man United defender Matthijs de Ligt, though the statement was that helium was possibly fortunate to debar further punishment.

Replays of the incidental - which occurred portion the shot was successful the aerial - showed that De Ligt had eyes connected the shot arsenic it dropped, but Nunez had a speedy glimpse astatine the defender earlier clattering into him.

Nunez's caution was his 5th of the season, and arsenic Liverpool's clash with the Red Devils was lone their 19th Premier League crippled of the campaign, the 25-year-old has not avoided the threshold for a one-game suspension.

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The erstwhile Benfica striker volition service that punishment erstwhile Liverpool look astonishment bundle Nottingham Forest - the lone squad to bushed them truthful acold this play - successful their adjacent Premier League fixture connected January 14.

Unlike reddish paper suspensions, which use crossed each tournaments, yellow-card bans are contention specific, meaning that Nunez volition beryllium disposable for Liverpool's upcoming brace of knockout games.

Arne Slot volition person Nunez astatine his disposal for Wednesday's EFL Cup semi-final archetypal limb against Tottenham Hotspur and the FA Cup third-round clash with Accrington Stanley connected January 11, and the striker volition beryllium expected to commencement astatine slightest 1 of those contests.

However, Nunez is struggling to marque his lawsuit for Premier League starts, lone featuring from the archetypal whistle successful 7 of the Reds' top-flight games this word and notching conscionable 2 goals successful 15 appearances overall.

The 25-year-old's troubles this play person led to accrued speculation implicit a imaginable exit from Anfield successful 2025, though reports that AC Milan are readying a swoop for Nunez are believed to beryllium wide of the mark.

While Nunez fails to radiance successful Liverpool colours, Salah continues to rewrite the past books and broke yet different Premier League record with his punishment successful the four-goal thriller connected Merseyside.

Amad Diallo's leveller meant that Slot's broadside failed to summation their pb astatine the acme of the Premier League table, but they inactive clasp a six-point vantage implicit second-placed Arsenal, who person played a crippled much than the Merseyside giants.

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