'Gem cutter' - National media react to Liverpool win as Jurgen Klopp finds his 'wildcard'
Liverpool remain one of the early pacesetters in the Premier League season following their 3-1 victory against West Ham United on Sunday afternoon.
Jurgen Klopp's side were facing an outfit who have also made a promising start to the new campaign, though the Reds' quality proved too much for the Hammers as they fell to a second league defeat in 2023/24.
For Liverpool, the gap to Manchester City stands at two points - and there is a belief growing this could well be closed before long if the high performance levels witnessed since August remain a theme in the coming months.
Sharing their assessment of the events that unfolded at Anfield were the national media, along with the ECHO's own Paul Gorst, whose thoughts on proceedings can be found below.
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'Fuel all manner of possibilities'
Paul Joyce of the Times wrote:
"For a spell, it looked like being another one of those afternoons for Darwin Núñez. The sort where he could feel the warmth of the Liverpool supporters, their throaty backing every time he shuttled back to help out in defence, but could not quite bring them to a crescendo.
"Shortly after half-time he had found himself standing in front of the Kop, his hands brought up to partly cover his face, after a glaring miss. Neat interplay between Dominik Szoboszlai and Mohamed Salah had created a gilt-edged opening, ten yards out, but the striker screwed his shot wide and lingered on the spot in disbelief.
"Yet one of Núñez’s undoubted qualities is the ability to brush off missteps and he is fortunate, too, to find himself in a Liverpool team who
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