Garth Crooks has showered Conor Bradley with reward after catching his eye with a showstopping efficiency towards Chelsea.
The younger Northern Irishman had a hand in three of the 4 targets registered towards the Blues at Anfield, even registering a terrific objective within the course of.
“I noticed this lad make his Premier League debut at Bournemouth and he caught my eye then. Nevertheless, what befell towards Chelsea 10 days later stopped me in my tracks,” the previous Tottenham star wrote in his group of the week column for BBC Sport.
“Firstly Bradley can defend, and secondly the objective he scored towards Chelsea was of the very best high quality.
“I’ve seen present Liverpool strikers smash balls in the direction of the objective with out quite a lot of thought. Bradley’s strike within the 4-1 demolition of Chelsea was so exact if the Blues had two keepers in objective they wouldn’t have saved it – it was a superb objective.
“What impressed me most in regards to the full-back’s efficiency was he performed the sport as if he belonged within the group.”
The 20-year-old has since been handed compassionate go away after his father sadly handed away on Saturday following a battle with sickness.
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An extremely vivid future
All palms have been on deck on the panic stations after Trent Alexander-Arnold was handed a keep within the remedy room.
It’s a testomony to Bradley’s maturity and high quality, nevertheless, that our No.66 was barely missed all through that interval.
If something, Liverpool appeared significantly weakened when welcoming our first-choice right-back into the starting-XI for the 3-1 defeat at Arsenal.
Alexander-Arnold, admittedly, would have been significantly rusty, although it’s telling simply how a lot his understudy was missed in London.
Bradley’s obtained one hell of a vivid future on Merseyside – that’s for certain.
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