Harvey Elliott exudes an air of supreme confidence when he’s on a soccer pitch, trying very very like a younger man who isn’t simply fazed.
That was in proof as soon as extra on Monday evening throughout Liverpool’s 3-3 draw away to Aston Villa, with one noteworthy second catching the eye of Reds followers, in addition to one journalist.
Ian Doyle was protecting the match for the Liverpool Echo, for whom he supplied a round-up of moments from the sport which can have gone unnoticed in TV broadcasts.
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When Elliott was substituted within the 76th minute, the reporter famous: “The travelling Kop acknowledged the efforts of the 21-year-old by giving him a standing ovation on his substitution as he departed the sphere by the away finish earlier than strolling across the objective again to the tunnel.
“When Elliott made a chatty gesture together with his hand as he handed the goading Villa followers, the Liverpool help cherished it.”
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Elliott is properly accustomed to being the recipient of widespread heckling from opposition supporters, having run the gauntlet at Craven Cottage throughout Liverpool’s win away to his former membership Fulham final month.
As if his ice-cold gesture to the disparaging Villa followers final evening didn’t endear him sufficient to the travelling Reds, the passionate method wherein he celebrated Jarell Quansah’s first Premier League objective would’ve executed the trick.
Jurgen Klopp’s workforce might have stuttered in the direction of the conclusion of his ultimate season in cost, however the man within the quantity 19 shirt has been certainly one of our standout performers throughout that interval. He scored a show-stopping objective in opposition to Tottenham final week and supplied the cross from which Emiliano Martinez hilariously dropped the ball over his personal goalline on Monday.
Elliott is taking part in with such conviction that he would possibly but make a late burst for Gareth Southgate’s England squad for Euro 2024, and even when that match comes too quickly for the uncapped 21-year-old, he seems like a participant who might genuinely explode below Arne Slot subsequent time period.
What we are able to see for particular is that it’ll take lots quite a lot of catcalls from opposition followers to get below the pores and skin of this assured and brilliantly gifted younger expertise.
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