AS GOOD AS GOALS

Jota and Nunez ready to fill Salah boots

- DAVID ANDERSON

LIVERPOOL V NEWCASTLE

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JURGEN KLOPP claims Darwin Nunez and Diogo Jota have timed their scoring returns to perfection with Mo Salah leaving for the Africa Cup of Nations.

Tonight's home clash with Newcastle will be Salah's last before he heads to the tournament hosted by the Ivory Coast.

And Klopp is delighted Nunez has ended his 12-game barren run while Jota netted within seven minutes of returning from his hamstring injury.

Klopp feels Nunez and Jota, together with his other frontmen Luis Diaz and Cody Gakpo, can fill the massive hole in Liverpool's attack left by the 16-goal top scorer Salah (inset).

"Yes, absolutely, it's great timing," said the Liverpool boss who is also losing Wataru Endo to the Asia Cup.

"And it's good as well that we played the West Ham game without Mo starting, seeing that we can do something without him.