#4 New stars emerge
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While the usual suspects in attack for Liverpool are Philippe Coutinho, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Adam Lallana, there was a change in script for this game. Firmino missed the game due to injury. Coutinho has hit a wall since his return from injury and was rightfully replaced by the young Ben Woodburn on the hour mark. Mane was trying to make things happen while Lallana had a poor game by his standards although one Cruyff turn in the first-half does stand out.
In such a scenario, new stars emerged for Liverpool as Wijnaldum scored the all-important equaliser making it three goals in his last five PL games. The goal gave the people and players hope that this will not turn out like the depressing losses previously and definitely helped the team’s morale.
Emre Can popped up with a terrific goal in the second-half to put Liverpool ahead. Further, both Georginio Wijnaldum and Emre Can had top quality second-halves with Can finding his rhythm in the defensive midfielder role and Wijnaldum playing his box-to-box role effectively. When bigger stars of a team are off colour, it is the sign of a good team to find new match-winners and Liverpool demonstrated that quality.
