Alexander-Arnold the unexpected playmaker in Liverpool’s red machine | Barney Ronay

The Liverpool right-back scored one and made a couple more on a night when the runaway leaders made short work of Leicester, their nearest though increasingly distant challengers

Joyful and, indeed, triumphant. The King Power Stadium was a boisterous place with Liverpool’s world champions in town. New-build stadiums can often be deathly places. Not this one, with its operatic pre-match fanfare, its sense of high-end underdog glamour and with a Leicester team unbeaten at home in the league this season.

At which point, enter the red machine and, in particular, another extraordinary, incisive and deeply unusual performance from Trent Alexander-Arnold.

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