The preliminary expectation was that Ryan Gravenberch must look ahead to an opportunity at common first-team soccer in Liverpool’s Premier League marketing campaign.
Nonetheless, a stroke of unwell fortune for Curtis Jones has turned out to be the inverse for the Dutch worldwide, with the previous set to take a seat out the Reds’ subsequent top-flight conflict with Nottingham Forest on the weekend owing to his three-game suspension.
With the ‘phenomenal’ (as described by Ben Jacobs for TEAMtalk through Football365) former Bayern Munich star having firmly gripped with each arms his alternative, his days on the bench (so far as the Premier League is worried) may now be over for the foreseeable future.
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How did Gravenberch fare within the Merseyside derby?
Because the left-sided midfielder, filling our No.17’s boots, Gravenberch was the epitome of reliability in the course of the park, finishing 97% of his passes (31/32) all through his 62-minute look, in line with stats compiled by Sofascore.
The 21-year-old greater than crammed his boots when it got here to his defensive duties, making three interceptions, one sort out and successful 5 out of seven floor duels in opposition to Sean Dyche’s males.
In brief, it was every thing you’d count on from Jones, proper all the way down to the minimal lack of possession (4 instances in opposition to Everton, which ranks effectively in opposition to his teammate’s common of 5) and his normal reliability with the ball.
Given the spirit of meritocracy that guides Jurgen Klopp’s decision-making, we’d be surprised if our No.38 was instantly relegated again to the bench as quickly because the Englishman has served his sentence.
Which may appear a tad unfair on a participant who has been in any other case principally faultless since our spectacular 10-game run on the finish of 2022/23, although is de facto simply indicative of the abundance of high quality our German tactician now has at his fingertips following a productive summer time window.
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