Trent Alexander-Arnold repeatedly beat Mo Salah in a training exercise as Liverpool show off their latest Inside Training. The under-fire full-back looks sharp.
There’s a lot of attention on Trent Alexander-Arnold right now. Gareth Southgate left him out of the England squad to face Germany on Monday, shining a very bright spotlight on the Liverpool defender’s form.
That spotlight doesn’t seem to affect him, however. Alexander-Arnold looked razor-sharp as he consistently beat Mohamed Salah in a training exercise.
The footage was in Liverpool’s Inside Training video – five minutes of footage that was mainly commenting on Kostas Tsimikas’s new haircut. They did sneak some actual training into there, though.
Most of it was a quick warm-up game. Two Liverpool players stood either side of a cone while a coach shouted out instructions. If he shouts head, touch your head. If he shouts knees, touch your knees. To ‘win’, you had to be the one who grabs the cone when he shouts cone.
“Keep the camera on this one,” Alexander-Arnold tells the camera as he lined up ahead of Salah. “For cheating!” replied Salah.
And the right-back certainly looked sharp as he consistently beat Salah in the exercise. Maybe that Monday off did him a world of good.
Trent Alexander-Arnold beats Mo Salah in Liverpool training
We said when Southgate left him out that Liverpool would quietly celebrate it. There are six massive weeks ahead of the Reds attempt to get their season on track before the World Cup.
And Alexander-Arnold being fresh after missing that second game is a big win. In fact, several stars either missed the internationals entirely or skipped a game. That’s a luxury that Liverpool never really have post-interational break.
Hopefully, it can make all the difference over the next six weeks. Instead of running players into the ground, many just got a proper rest right as things get truly hectic.
For the likes of Alexander-Arnold, it could be exactly what he needs to turn his form around.
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