Trent Alexander-Arnold and Dominik Szoboszlai handled Liverpool followers to a quickfire second of brilliance within the Reds’ 2-0 win over Newcastle at Anfield on Wednesday evening.
The Hungarian midfielder put in one in every of his greatest performances in a purple shirt as he scored the Eleventh-minute opener and was relentless all through the match in what journalist Ian Doyle labelled an ‘wonderful‘ show.
The midfielder’s objective naturally grabbed the headlines, however there was one second within the second half which was nearly as chic.
Trent and Szoboszlai pull off backheeled one-two
When Sandro Tonali seized upon a unfastened Liverpool clearance 30 yards out from our objective, it appeared as if there might’ve been imminent hazard for the house facet.
Nevertheless, an uncharacteristically heavy contact from the Newcastle man noticed the ball roll straight in the direction of Trent, who eschewed the chance to manage it just by as a substitute backheeling it to Szoboszlai, with the Magpies’ quantity 8 instantly taken out of the transfer regardless of his greatest efforts at closing down our vice-captain.
Not content material with receiving the go in eye-catching type, the Hungary worldwide accomplished the one-two to the 26-year-old with a backheel of his personal, with the right-back then galloping into the house in entrance of him to as he sought to provoke a counterattack for his facet.
That sums up Liverpool’s confidence proper now
The audacious backheeled one-two neatly sums up the supreme confidence which is at present flowing by way of this Liverpool group.
For even one in every of Trent or Szoboszlai to try such a showreel transfer not far outdoors their penalty space could be chancy; for each of them to do it smacks of both full religion of their potential or the form of recklessness which’d increase a supervisor’s pulse.
Perhaps the Reds duo felt liberated by the information of Arsenal dropping extra factors in a Premier League title race that Gary Lineker has described as a ‘procession‘ for Arne Slot’s facet, who now have a 13-point lead on the summit. Had the match scenario been extra tense at that time, we mightn’t have seen such trickery being indulged.
In any occasion, it was an aesthestically marvellous second of brilliance on one more enormously satisfying evening for Liverpool followers, gamers and administration.
You may try the backheeled one-two between Trent and Szoboszlai beneath, through @LFC on X:
Backheel brilliance 👏 pic.twitter.com/H7kbDfvgsy
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) February 27, 2025
