Luis Suarez will forever be remembered for his truly spectacular goals for Liverpool. His scores against Norwich and John Ruddy were better than most players have had in their entire careers.
Suarez scored 82 goals at Liverpool and then moved to Barcelona where he scored a further 198 goals. If you want to remember a perfume on this list, you know it has to be special. But you can still hear people of the red persuasion semi-regularly talking about how they won’t achieve their goals. It was against Arsenal.
Liverpool went on to win the game 5-1, which makes it even more surprising that that moment is still remembered. When a corner kick took place on the edge of the penalty area, Suarez controlled the difficult ball by hitting the grass and throwing the ball into the air.
As the ball dropped from the sky, he thundered home at least 25 yards away. Suárez’s effort ended with him going past the yellow-clad defenders (perhaps he thought it was Norwich) and beating the keeper. of the post. Kolo Toure then deflected the shot quite dramatically and was unable to control the effort that could have gone his way.
Trent Alexander-Arnold had his Toure moment against Newcastle. It was a much clearer chance, but he still looked for all the world to put Liverpool down again after Mohamed Salah’s missed penalty, only to be turned over again and again. But later, Alexander-Arnold also had Suarez’s moments.
In fact, his effort might even surpass Uruguay’s in the list of greatest goals ever scored. When the ball came to him, it was doubtful whether Alexander-Arnold would be able to hold the ball and drill a cross. But a completely different picture appeared in the mind of the Liverpool vice-captain.The first time he hit the ball, it flew off his leg and into the trees before anyone could process what had just happened.
This also applies to Martin Dubravka, who barely raised his hand in a symbolic gesture. The brutality of what had just happened only became clear after the replay. Alexander-Arnold shot, without a doubt, from the most appalling angle. Not only that, but what held him back was woodworking.
The ball could have easily slid over the line in a post-post combination on another day.It contained all the key elements of Suarez’s effort: volleys, great technical difficulty and minimal misses. Given the angle of the pull, there must be an edge.
As Jamie Carragher pointed out on Sky Sports, few players even attempt this, let alone make it this far. There are very few of them from the right. Carragher once drew a parallel with Roberto Carlos’ goal, even for those who haven’t touched it in years. This is the level of difficulty we are talking about in the Alexander-Arnold attack.
Like Carlos, Liverpool’s vice-captain has redefined what is possible for a defender.
He may or may not be in the middle end position, but his achievements as a defender place him in a very rare group. On a night when Liverpool broke the expected goalscoring record, it didn’t register as a chance. But Alexander-Arnold has now joined Suarez in a memorable goalless streak for many years.
