Liverpool attacker Darwin Nunez not feeling any pressure to score goals

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5 Aug 2022 • 6:54 AM MYT
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Darwin Nunez insists he is not feeling any pressure after joining Liverpool.

The Uruguayan shrugged off his rusty preseason to score in the Community Shield win over Manchester City last weekend.

Asked if he felt pressure to score early in his Liverpool career, Nunez told the club's website: "I think a striker always lives off scoring goals, but I think you try to go out onto the field to do the very best you can to help the team.

"If the goals do come, by all means, bring them on. But if they don't flow, what are we going to do, other than keep working hard to be ready for the next game? You have to say that this is really just the beginning. Things went well for me last Saturday against City, I managed to score a goal and I won the penalty, but I don't have to feel any added pressure right now that I have to play well and be scoring in every game.

"What I do have to do is train every day and when matchday comes around, give my very best so things go well for us as a team. Because here we win together, and when we lose, we lose together. If things go badly, then we suffer together.

"It's what I always say, this is a group of players and we always have to stick together as one. It's great that here the support you get from the rest of your teammates is huge."

Nunez, signed for a club-record fee this summer, will be tasked with leading the line after Sadio Mane's departure.

But the 22-year-old won't be setting himself a goals target this season.

"To be honest, I never really set myself a goals target," he added. "Of course, it's great and very welcome if the goals are flowing and I'm scoring. But no, I never set an exact figure. My target currently is for things to go well for me and to give everything I have for the team and this group of players, and that at the end of the season we can be lifting a trophy. That's what I want and what everyone wants here at Liverpool."