Saturday, after which ex-Reds defender Gary Gillespie remarked
on Robertson’s consistency: “You can never play well for the
whole season, but you can keep doing all the right things at the
right times to get results.
“Left-back is one area where we don’t have a like-for-like
replacement, but that burden of responsibility never seems to
faze him. His stamina and energy levels never dip. He’s strong and
aggressive, and even when he loses the ball he’s closing down the
opposition and putting them under pressure to win it back.”
Then came the Merseyside derby at which our photographer
focused his lens on both full-backs for this feature. Alexander-
Arnold, switching to the left lank and surging forward on the
counter-attack, provided the perfectly-weighted inside-lick for
Sadio Mane to sweep home the fourth of Liverpool’s ive goals.
It meant that since the start of last season Trent had provided
more Premier League assists than any other player, with 18 –
ifteen coming in the calendar year of 2019. Up to and including
the win at home over Sheield United on Thursday 2 January,