The £64m summer signing caught his first sight of McGregor’s goal after merely two minutes.
It made perfect sense to reintroduce Núñez against a team that, after the opening two matches, had the joint-worst defensive record in the Champions League. Jota, revelling in the space between Rangers’ three central defenders and centre midfield, was also integral to Liverpool’s complete first-half dominance. The answer was to dispense with Liverpool’s customary three-man midfield and load the attacking third with Salah, Diogo Jota and Luis Díaz all working off Núñez, whose movement and work rate across the frontline impressed from the off. “If we can help the boys with a way to defend differently we will do that,” the Liverpool manager said at his pre-match press conference. He backed up that reassuring message by handing the 23-year-old only a third start of the season, and as the focal point of a formation that was even more attack-minded than usual. Klopp had taken the Liverpool striker aside at training on Sunday and told the Uruguay international not to worry about the difficult introduction to his Anfield career.
There was rehabilitation of sorts for Darwin Núñez, however. Rangers were meek in the extreme and remain both pointless and goalless on their return to the Champions League stage. The away supporters’ renditions of God Save the King caused more consternation among the home crowd than anything their players produced on the pitch. One customer was allowed to spend £65,835 in just five months without SOF checks being carried out.Van Bronckhorst’s side did not seriously threaten Alisson’s goal until the 85th minute when the substitute Rabbi Matondo had a shot hooked off the line by Kostas Tsimikas. This included accepting verbal assurances from customers on their employment income, not setting out which documents should be requested as part of SOF checks. The online casino company, which is in the process of buying William Hill’s UK assets, also failed to carry out proper “source of funds” (SOF) checks to prevent money laundering. “Consumers in Britain deserve to know that when they gamble, they are participating in a leisure activity where operators play their part in keeping them safe and are carrying out checks to ensure money is crime-free.”
“Today’s fine is one of our largest to date, and all should be clear that if there is a repeat of the failures at 888 then we have to seriously consider the suitability of the operator to uphold the licensing objectives and keep gambling safe and crime-free. “The circumstances of the last enforcement action may be different but both cases involve failing consumers – and this is something that is not acceptable,” said Rhodes. In another case, 888 placed a deposit cap of £1,300 a month on the account of an NHS worker whom it knew earned £1,400 a month.Īn audit carried out in October 2020 found that most of the company’s social responsibility interactions with customers consisted of a single email describing the available responsible gambling tools and did not involve customer interaction.Īndrew Rhodes, the chief executive of the Gambling Commission, pointed out that this was 888’s second big fine, after it was hit with a £7.8m penalty in 2017, a record at the time. In one case, the company did no checks on a customer until they had lost £37,000 in just six weeks during 2020, a time when the commission had asked companies to be cautious about luring in people who might be more vulnerable due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The regulator said 888 was not properly identifying customers who were at risk of harm because it did not carry out financial checks until they had deposited £40,000. The fine comes just weeks before the government is due to publish proposals to reform gambling regulation, potentially including affordability checks to make sure people can afford the amounts they are betting.
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