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There were contrasting fortunes for a pair of Liverpool midfielders against Leicester City.
Both were impressive, but while Curtis Jones produced arguably his most accomplished display in a Reds jersey to date, Naby Keita’s night ended in disappointment again.
I’ve been watching Curtis since I was 15 or 16 for LFC TV at the Academy and I knew he was the real deal.
I also knew it with Trent Alexander-Arnold; you only know when a special talent comes.
Okay, there is a bit of a bias with a local guy because you want Scousers in your squad, but I can always say this guy had it.
However, the way he played against Leicester was different from the Curtis Jones I’ve seen in the past.
It was a totally disciplined performance. The manager has taken it and guided him through training.
Before it was ‘go and do what you want’. It was ‘attack, attack, attack’ and he had about 10 shots per game and was all over the place, but this was tremendous.
He was knowledgeable and defensive-minded in a way that showed more maturity.
There was a time when he made the wrong choice at the time, but he has the world at his feet and will be in the Liverpool team for years to come.
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Keita, on the other hand, is very unlucky.
He wants to really prove a point and until he left, he had had a really good game. It was a great shame.
You feel sorry for him. It really is strange. Could it be the intensity of the Premier League, or even the intensity of how we play?
I don’t know, I am not a scientist and obviously I am not looking at this with experience in medical matters.
But all these injuries seem too coincidental to me, so it makes you wonder what the problem is.
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