‘I went through that’: Thierry Henry gives his honest opinion on Liverpool’s Darwin Nunez

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Thierry Henry gave his opinion on Liverpool’s Darwin Nunez on Tuesday evening. The Uruguayan scored again for the Reds.

Darwin Nunez scored again against Napoli on Tuesday evening – his seventh goal for Liverpool. The striker is in fantastic form, finding the net in virtually every game he plays right now.

And yet, some feel a sense that he’s not quite clicking at Anfield. Just what type of player is he and can Liverpool win with him?

Jamie Carragher wanted the thoughts of Thierry Henry, with the pair doing punditry for CBS Sports. The former Arsenal striker, labelled the ‘greatest in Premier League history’ by Carragher, compared Nunez to his own start with the Gunners.

Thierry Henry on Darwin Nunez

“I think he needs confidence,” said Henry. “And the confidence that I’m talking about is when you are are at a club and you feel like you’re going to play week-in, week-out you’re a bit more cold in front of the goal.

“Because he wants to please so much and do so much – he wants to wow the Liverpool fans – sometimes he rushes it. He gets the ball, he rushes it instead of controlling the ball and going back on his right foot to finish it clean.

“I went through that. You arrive as a big signing, coming after Sadio Mané – that’s not easy to do – and you just overdo it at times instead of being calm and cool.”

Henry is probably the best striker we’ve seen in the Premier League but he did suffer a poor start. It took him 12 games to score for Arsenal and many wrote him off quickly.

Of course, he found his feet and dominated English football. We won’t put those expectations on Nunez. Henry is a fine example of a player needing to find their feet, though.

Nunez is certainly erratic, too, and he’ll score bagfuls once he starts putting the easy ones away. Though, we shouldn’t forget that he’s already scoring at an incredible rate.

Seven goals by this stage might not be on Erling Haaland’s level. It a phenomenal return for the minutes Nunez has played, however. Here’s a 23-year-old playing for a new club – one struggling for form at that – and he’s still averaging around a goal every 107 minutes.

Henry’s right – there’s more to come. And that should terrify the rest of the Premier League, in all honesty.