IT was agony for a punter who missed out on an incredible £1million on the free to play Super 6 game by just ONE GOAL.
The fan correctly predicted the results of five Premier League games selected by Sky Sports this weekend and came painfully close to pocketing the life-changing sum of money.
He correctly guessed the scorelines of Manchester City’s win over Ipswich, Tottenham’s thumping of Everton and West Ham’s victory away at Crystal Palace from the Saturday 3pm games.
And he then got the score of Arsenal’s 2-0 win at Aston Villa bang on to take him into Super Sunday.
Bournemouth thought they had beaten Newcastle 2-1 with a stoppage time winner, only for VAR to controversially disallow it to the supporter’s delight.
It all came down to the final match, with the punter needing Liverpool to beat Brentford 3-0.
The Reds raced into the lead via Luis Diaz before Mo Salah made it two after 70 minutes.
Fans up and down the country were hoping Liverpool could make his dream come true – but Brentford held on to stop the winnings from being deposited into his account.
Darwin Nunez replaced Diogo Jota two minutes after it became 2-0 and fans have joked the unlucky fan must have been raging seeing him come on amid his nine-match Premier League goal drought.
One social media user said: “Imagine being that geezer needing 3-0 Liverpool for his Super 6 and £1million and seeing Nunez come on.”
Another joked: “Someone only needs one more Liverpool goal to win the million from Super 6, this pending Darwin Nunez two big chances missed might send his head to the moon.”
A third laughed: “This poor person one goal away from willing a million on Super Six having to watch Nunez try and score.”
More reacted: “Watching Darwin Nunez come on for Salah with 20 mins to go and knowing that dream is over is pretty brutal.”
Nunez ended up firing a header wide and taking another chance off Cody Gakpo, who could have been in a better position.
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