Matthew Whitby

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Arne Slot on Darwin Núñez: “Darwin is a striker we have to use in a certain way and we were not able yet to bring the best out of him this season. Against Accrington Stanley again you saw that he has a lot of pace but, unfortunately for him, most teams sit back a lot against us.” “If you look back at the goals he scored for us, I remember the one against Villa when he went around the goalkeeper on a fast break, that is his main strength – he has other qualities as well – but we are still working on getting him in the best possible positions against a low block.” “That involves the right timings, the right crosses, the right position to start from and making the right run. But I also see, and I don't know if other people see this, the way teams defend our No 9 is something you have to give credit to the other teams for.” “It's never, "Here Darwin, you can score". Every time we put in a cross I see a defender all over him. I see it, referees unfortunately don't. It's more difficult to score against a team like Forest because every time we had a chance they had six, seven, eight, nine or 10 players in the box. yard box.” “And the one time (Chris) Wood had a chance he was there almost on his own. We weren't really close to the ball. They only had one chance, we had 15. But with the 15 we had there was always someone close to the ball or all over one of our players.” “Darwin will score his goals. He already did and he will again.”