East Rutherford, United States.
Darwin Nunez scored this Thursday against Bolivia his second goal in this America Cup in two games. Since October the forward has scored in each of the matches that has disputed with Uruguayan unstoppable streak that La Celeste hopes to continue taking advantage of.
The Liverpool striker has scored 10 goals in his last seven games played with Uruguay. Some enviable numbers that Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia (two goals) in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers; Mexico, in a friendly (three goals), and Panama and Bolivia in this America Cup.
Núñez did not start the match in the best way.
Two minutes into the game, Nahitan Nández sent him a precise cross into the area, but he, without any mark, sent his header next to the Bolivian goal.
The former Peñarol player was not discouraged, however. As in his debut, Uruguay against Panama, on Sunday, where he missed numerous clear chances, Núñez was able to keep his cool and ended up scoring.
- In the 21st minute, Maximiliano Araújo drove down the left, saw Núñez uncheck and made a great through ball. The striker received and hit a low left-footed shot past the Bolivian goalkeeper, Guillermo Viscarra, to make it 2-0.
A well-deserved reward after a good start to the match in which he offered himself time and again and was a nightmare for the Bolivian defence.
The night of the ram could have been even more rounded if the crossbar I wouldn’t have stopped his header in the 28th minute, after a good cross from Nicolás de la Cruz.
Núñez tried again a couple of times in the second half before being replaced by the legendary Luis Suarez, the all-time top scorer of Uruguay with 68 goals.
– Historic streak –
The 25-year-old Liverpool striker still has a long way to go until he approaches the figures of the ‘Pistolero’, but he already has 13 goals in 25 games played with the Uruguayan national team.
And his streak of seven consecutive games scoring with the national team has just done it enter football history Uruguayan by equaling a record that dated back to 1928.
- Héctor Scarone – two-time Olympic champion, world champion and four-time American champion with Uruguay–he was until then the only man to have scored in seven consecutive matches with the Celeste, a feat achieved between August 1927 and June 1928.
With goals, without sparing efforts in pressure or retreat, ‘Darwizzy’ Núñez It has become essential in Uruguay Marcelo Bielsa, increasingly a candidate to raise the America Cup.
