Alexander Arnold: It was a well deserved victory against United

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Trent Alexander-Arnold says that the team was made to show their fighting qualities but were well worth their 2-0 victory against Man United at Anfield on Sunday.

After a goal in the first 15 minutes by Virgil Van Dijk coming from a pin-point corner from the 21 year-old, it appeared that the Reds were in the mood to put their bitter rivals to the sword.

But despite carving out a fair share of chances, the scoreline stayed the same until second half injury time when Mo Salah finished superbly after a sublime clearance from Alisson.

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Speaking to the Official site after the game the right-back said it was a deserved victory.

“I think it was well deserved from us. 

“They never had many clear-cut chances, we should have scored more than two goals but to get that goal at the end was the icing on the cake really – especially the fashion we did it.

“Ali getting the assist which is unbelievable. 

“There’s comparisons with one we scored [against United] about 10 years ago and then he’s ran up and celebrated like Pepe Reina did! 

“So yeah, it was a good way to end the game.”

However Alexander-Arnold said that there were things that they could improve on.

“They obviously came to defend really and it was hard to break them down, but we created chances. 

Obviously we got the set-piece goal quite early on which helped us, scored a few that were ruled out in the first half and then should have finished the game off early in the second half. 

We were all over them for 10 minutes, they couldn’t get out, and obviously we’re disappointed with that because putting it to bed earlier then you’re not nervous near the end of the game. 

“That’s something that we obviously need to improve on a little bit.”

 

The England international also discussed the impact of Van Dijk at set-pieces

“He’s probably one of the, if not the, most prolific centre-halves in the league and to have someone like that, who is going into the box and putting his head on the end of things is fantastic

“I think he’s showed that he’s probably the best centre-half in the world over the last 18 months and he showed that again today.

“His defensive work probably goes a bit unnoticed because we’re so used to seeing it but you can’t take it for granted.

 

"He's always there in the right places, the amount of headers he was getting out the box for us, winning headers off corners, is priceless for us.”

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I had VVD as my man of the match yesterday,a difficult call because there were many great performances. The red machine rolls on.