Two wins and a minute into the fourth round of the Premier League season. In the match against Aston Villa at Anfield, Liverpool took the lead early on and combined an own goal and a late addition to win comfortably by three goals.
Injury forced a midway substitution in the match, but it was 24-year-old defender Trent Alexander-Arnold, who wore the captain’s mark for the first time in a packed Anfield, who continued to supply accurate long passes to get behind the final line.
He has been named vice-captain this season, and although he has had his moments, against Aston Villa, he played his best long and short passes to keep the opposing defenders on their toes.
He was able to pass to the wide open spaces behind him on the high line, creating numerous chances for Darwin Nunez, Mohamed Salah, Luis Diaz, and others.
Liverpool played their best game of the season with a clean sheet. Former England goalkeeper Ben Foster lined up rave reviews for the vice-captain, who responded to the crowd’s cheers with his best performance, and praised him for being a menace.
“The ball over the top is outrageous,”
“If you get back to watch his technique when he does it, it is phenomenal. It’s coming back to him and you can see he takes a quick look first as well.”
“As soon as he takes this quick look, and you see him moving his body, you think ‘oh, he’s seen something here’. And then it’s about whether you’ve got the ability and the strength and the power to move your foot quickly enough and get that ball whipped over. And he has to really dig it out over the top as well. It is inch perfect. It is phenomenal. What a ball.”
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