Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admitted his delight at seeing Darwin Nunez come off the bench to win a game for his side.
The Uruguayan forward netted twice late in a 2-1 win over Newcastle United at St. James' Park.
Despite having only ten men for most of the game, the battling Reds secured a valuable three points.
Post-game, Klopp stated on what he told Nunez before putting him on: Definitely what I said to Darwin had no influence on his performance. Pep Lijnders can speak to him and that's what he did, I just give him a hug and encourage him to go out there and fight for the team. That's it.
Darwin, we had that before, he is not happy for not starting, that's how it is but somebody, in this early stage of the season, cannot start. We cannot have 11 players and play them all the time, so we need to find stability is the discussion I don't know if the public discusses it but of course players are not happy [when they do not start].
But after the international break we play every three days and nobody can play all the games so we have to make sure we have different options to go for. And we need to create a new way to play football and, of course, Darwin can be a super part of that.
His key strengths are exceptional, absolutely, but we need to find stability as well. So, for him everything will be fine but it is just maybe it had to be like this if he wouldn't have been that angry and started the game today, he wouldn't score two in the last six minutes or whatever, so let's take it like that."