Jurgen Klopp hailed Trent Alexander-Arnold’s efficiency as “super influential” after the right-back snatched a draw for Liverpool at Manchester City.
The England worldwide struck a effective equaliser because the Reds held the champions 1-1 in a good encounter on the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
Erling Haaland had put City forward together with his fiftieth Premier League objective from simply 48 appearances – a brand new document – however Alexander-Arnold, having come by some robust moments in opposition to the difficult Jeremy Doku, modified the script 10 minutes from time.
Having stepped into midfield, the 25-year-old took a contact and fired into the underside nook from exterior the realm to peg again City and permit Arsenal, courtesy of their victory at Brentford, to take high spot.
It was a robust reminder of Alexander-Arnold’s abilities after a global break during which there was a lot debate over how he could be most successfully deployed by England supervisor Gareth Southgate.
Liverpool boss Klopp mentioned: “Trent was super influential. Not only in the goal – around the goal, in all situations he was a really important player. He played a really good game.
“We changed it, with the position. We made it more clear where he has to be in these moments.
“He did that really well and had still his moments with Doku where he was really strong in the one-on-one situations.
“You could see in a lot of moments how difficult it is against him, he is a really good dribbler. Trent was pretty influential in a good way.”
Alexander-Arnold’s leveller not solely took the gloss off Haaland’s achievement – the earlier quickest participant to a half-century was Andy Cole in 65 video games – but in addition denied City a share of one other document.
Pep Guardiola’s facet had received their earlier 23 dwelling video games in all competitions, stretching again to a draw in opposition to Everton final December, and one other would have equalled Sunderland’s document for an English top-flight facet set between 1890 and 1892.
City, nevertheless, have been essentially the most dominant facet, racking up 16 makes an attempt on objective to Liverpool’s eight and felt aggrieved when a Ruben Dias objective was dominated out for a foul on goalkeeper Alisson Becker, who had a day to overlook.
Alisson had been at fault for City’s opener, made quite a few different errors within the recreation and picked up a hamstring damage late on.
City defender Nathan Ake mentioned: “I think we wanted more. We felt OK, we felt solid. We didn’t create too many chances but I think we controlled the game way more than we did against Chelsea, which was more up and down.
“We tried to create some chances. Just before their goal we created a very good one.
“We know they have the quality where they can – suddenly out of nothing – score a goal but, in the end, it is frustrating that one shot from distance goes in and you draw the game.”
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