{"id":23480,"date":"2025-07-25T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23480\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:51:10","slug":"ian-rush-says-great-liverpool-player-has-really-been-impressing-him-in-pre-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23480\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Rush says &#8216;great&#8217; Liverpool player has really been impressing him in pre-season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Liverpool are back in action ahead of their Premier League title defence as they\u2019ve been warming up with a few pre-season friendlies.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds have faced off against Preston North End and Stoke City already, while games against the likes of AC Milan and Athletic Bilbao are set to follow.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s early days yet, but we\u2019ve already got a glimpse of some of <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/liverpool\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool\u2019s<\/a> brilliance in pre-season, and speaking to The Redmen TV, <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/ian-rush\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Rush<\/a> has highlighted one player in particular who has impressed him.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Rush has praised <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/darwin-nunez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darwin Nunez<\/a>, claiming that he\u2019s gone a long way towards proving he can be the main man for Liverpool this season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2213415613-1-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"Darwin Nunez during match between Liverpool vs Chelsea\" class=\"wp-image-961026\" \/>Photo by Catherine Ivill \u2013 AMA\/Getty ImagesIan Rush praises Darwin Nunez<\/p>\n<p>Rush spoke about Nunez and his current situation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/fabrizio-romano-says-85m-player-will-leave-liverpool-unless-something-crazy-happens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nunez is expected to leave Liverpool<\/a> this summer, and with the Reds chasing Alexander Isak, an exit could be imminent.<\/p>\n<p>However, Rush has been impressed by Nunez in pre-season, claiming that he\u2019s starting to show <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/arne-slot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arne Slot<\/a> what he\u2019s all about.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think he\u2019s been here three years now, hasn\u2019t he? You know, and, I I like him, you know. I think he\u2019s a great player,\u201d Rush said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes when you\u2019re not playing regularly it maybe affects your form, you need 10 games to prove what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think what Darwin has done now this season we\u2019ve said you need to take your chance when you can know we\u2019ve got two games here I think 29 we have players so you only may get like 20, 30 minutes maybe half a game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you need to prove to the manager that \u2018I\u2019m the man for that\u2019 and so far he\u2019s done that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darwin Nunez stats in pre-season so far<\/p>\n<p>Rush says Nunez has been proving his ability in pre-season and he\u2019s not wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these are just warm-up games against Championship opposition, but Nunez has been producing the goods ahead of the 2025\/26 campaign, as the stats show.<\/p>\n<p>Darwin Nunez\u2019s pre-season stats so farGames2Goals4<\/p>\n<p>Four goals in two games is nothing to be sniffed at, and regardless of the non-competitive nature of these matches, this will do Nunez\u2019s confidence the world of good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/paul-merson-has-noticed-a-problem-liverpool-have-whenever-darwin-nunez-and-mohamed-salah-play-together\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nunez has been heavily criticised<\/a> over the years, so it\u2019s nice to see Rush giving him some praise.<\/p>\n<p>The striker is expected to be sold this summer, but, who knows? Perhaps he could prove his doubters wrong and become a key player for Liverpool this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are back in action ahead of their Premier League title defence as they\u2019ve been warming up with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1580,218,14851,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-23480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-darwin-nunez","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ian-rush","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}