Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was full of praise for right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold.
The German head coach was effusive in his words regarding the defender's display against Arsenal in the FA Cup.
Alexander-Arnold helped the Reds to a 2-0 success away from home, putting them into the fourth round.
Post-game, Klopp stated: There's still a lot of space [to improve] but it's outstanding already. It's great. He enjoys it, obviously, and you could see that on the pitch today. One-nil up, he spoke to everybody without me shouting at him and telling him he has to speak and make sure we are now really compact and stuff like this. My God, what a player! Good game.
Age-wise he is there, he can do that and he did it. Like Ibou [Konate] stepped up tonight, really, in that last line. That's extremely helpful. We cannot put everything on Ali's shoulders in moments like that just because Mo [Salah] is not there, Virg is not there and so on.
Wataru [Endo] grew a lot into that role recently. He is not a big speaker but in the game he was there, so missing all that is not cool but we have to do it anyway and that's what the boys did."