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Darwin Nunez nearly breaks Premier League last season's speed record in Fulham game

 recorded the highest speed among all players in the Premier League on the opening matchday.

 striker hit 36,53 km/h, comfortably beating 

Interestingly, Nunez has nearly broken last season's record, set by ex-Chelsea defender 

The Uruguayan was Liverpool's best player in a 2-2 draw against Fulham, changing the game when he came on in the second half.

'That's how it should be': Klopp discusses Nunez's Prem debut

 coming on and scoring and providing an assist on his Premier League debut.

"In a situation like that when we don’t really find a way in front of the goal, you need this extra determination, and the difference as well, it makes it difficult for the opponent obviously. 

"Yes, a great goal, could have scored another one as well, maybe two – crazy. So, he is involved in a lot of goal-scoring situations – that's really cool and that's where we have to bring him up. 

"Now imagine we would play good, how often we could set him up then? Because that was obviously our main problem, that our delivery was most of the time not good enough, and that was alright – we had massive chances, it's crazy. 

"If I would watch it back, if you watch highlights, you could misunderstand this game completely because we had a few really good situations, but between these situations we just didn't play well. "

Nunez replaced Firmino in the 51st minute and completely changed the game for 

The Reds became more direct going forward, using the Uruguayan's pace and physicality. He scored a goal with a beautiful flick shortly after the hour's mark and then set up 

39 minutes, 15 touches & more: Darwin Nunez's display vs Fulham in key numbers

Even though he started the game on the bench, 

's display became one of the biggest talking points of the 

The 23-year-old's appearance on the pitch helped 

 turn things around to some extent and earn a point, with Nunez playing a key role in both of the Reds' goals.

Here are some of the key stats from Darwin's display on Saturday afternoon, as per Squawka.

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👍✅ Nunez's top quality and got shitload of goals in him.

REDS ETERNAL

Let’s hope he is just as fast getting to 25 league goals this season and we don’t have to keep hearing about Haaland every 5 mins

LFC2705

His beast worth it,
The beast we needed ⚽⚽

Famous Ken

bring fast chaos, confuse the enemy, break them down while they trying to think - so excited to see him and Salah rule

Player		G
Erling Haaland	Man City	27
Cole Palmer	Chelsea	21
Alexander Isak	Newcastle	20
Ollie Watkins	Aston Villa	19
Dominic Solanke	Bournemouth	19

Darwin Nunez nearly breaks Premier League last season's speed record in Fulham game

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