Jamie Carragher says he saw something ‘sublime’ from one Liverpool player against Man United

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Liverpool needed a fightback on Sunday after an underwhelming display against Manchester United.

The Reds sat 23 points ahead of United at the start of play, but it didn’t look like it as the action got underway.

Liverpool simply couldn’t get going during a first-half in which Ruben Amorim’s side were mostly on top.

That dominance eventually told, with Lisandro Martinez hammering home a lovely goal at the Anfield Road end.

Plenty of blame for the ball hitting the net had to go to Trent Alexander-Arnold. Alexander-Arnold was woeful against United on an afternoon where all eyes were on the right-back.

Thankfully for Trent, Cody Gakpo soon went up the other end and blasted a top-corner effort past Andre Onana. And according to Jamie Carragher, it was a special, special goal from Gakpo.

Jamie Carragher hails ‘sublime’ Cody Gakpo

When the United goal eventually came on Sunday it was a deserved one.

At the time it went in, Liverpool did not look especially like scoring at all. The Reds had not been at it and could not complain with the deficit.

Then, out of nowhere, they were level. It was a slided ball from the excellent Alexis Mac Allister which set Gakpo away down the left.

The Dutchman still had plenty to do but he cut inside Matthijs de Ligt and curled a precise effort past Onana. And commentating for Sky Sports, Carragher praised Gakpo’s work.

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“Liverpool’s best player today has been Mac Allister,” began the Liverpool legend.

“He’s the one who gets the assist and that man may have been coming of, he may be staying on now. It’s really good here from Mac Allister, just shows that composure. He’s just onside and that is brilliant from Gakpo. A sublime finish from that man.”

Gakpo turns up yet agai

At the time in which Gakpo turned De Ligt inside out, it had seemed like a long way back into the game for Liverpool.

But the 25-year-old has been the man for the big occasion of late and this was another impressive moment to add to the catalogue.

As Carragher mentioned, Gakpo might well have been about to come off before he thrashed in the equaliser.

If Liverpool need a goal at the moment, though, he’s always on the most likely to get it.

It was Gakpo who came up trumps when the Reds needed a goal against Leicester on Boxing Day and he was the man to do it again. Not great on the whole from Liverpool, but Cody can hold his head hight again.