Anfield had not seen an hour of Darwin Nunez’s home debut for Liverpool when he was sent off for a stupid headbutt on Crystal Palace’s Joachim Andersen. Just 57 minutes into his first home game came an incident to sum up his stop-start first year on Merseyside.
Nunez had scored at Fulham the week before but, by the time he netted his second Premier League goal in a loss at Arsenal on October 9, another new forward brought to these shores for big money had already passed 15 league goals, with three hat-tricks.