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Brighton boss singles out Liverpool star who did something ‘unbelievable’ in EFL Cup
Performances like this – Liverpool knocking Fabian Hurzeler’s Brighton and Hove Albion out of the EFL Cup following a pulsating encounter – are becoming a trademark under Arne Slot.
♒Not for the first time this season, Liverpool rode their luck.
Slot’s visitors needed a bit of fortune at one en🔯d of the pitch – not to mention a quite sensational Vite💫zslav Jaros save – while once again taking the chances that came their way at the other end with a typically brutal efficiency.
‘Ruthless’ 🎶was the word Brighton and🌃 Hove Albion boss Fabian Hurzeler used at full-time.
With The Seagulls hitting the net with just two of their 19 shots, Hurzeler could only dream of the sort of finish Cody Gakpo produced. The Liverpool winger rat꧅tled home the first of a matchwinning𒁏 brace from a tight angle off the right.
After Gakpo ‘struggled’ duri🉐ng Liverpool’s 2-2 draw with🌳 Arsenal – in the words of Gary Neville – this w🔴💜as certainly more like it.
‘Unbelievable’ Cody Gakpo fires Liverpool past Brighton in EFL Cup
“Sure, it is disappointing to go be knocked out of the cup but we were not ruthless enough,” Hurzeler sighs, speaking at his pos🌃t-match press conferencꦕe.
ಌ“And I think Liverpool scored in the right moments. They scored out of nowhere with an unbelievable shot and they had the timing on their side.
“We were not able to reply in the right moments.”
Gakpꦗo, during his PSV Eindhoven days, made a tradition out of cutting in onto his right foot and fizzing devilish shots across the goalkeeper and into the far corner.
Only by viewing the reply did the sheer quality of the Dutchman’s 46th minute opener become clear; Gakpo’s shot dipping, swerving and picking up speed on it’s way in🏅to the net.
Gakpo doubled his tally on the nꦕight and for the season just past the hour as he caught Jason Steele by surprise with a near-post finish off his so-called weaker boot.
The Netherlands international has now started three of Live♓rpool’s last four games in all competitions, included in Slot’s XI against both Chelsea and RB Leipzig.
Gakpo had to settle for a cameo role in Sunday’s enthralling draw with Premier League title rivals Arsenal, however, with Slot 💜keen to make full use of a deep Liverpool squad.
The sheer depth of Slot’s frontline is why Paul Scholes sees Liverpool as a ꧟bigge🔯r threat this term than Mikel Arteta’s Gunners, for what it’s worth.
Arne Slot praises Gakpo contributions at Liverpool
“I think, in the second🥀 half of last season, he got a lot of goals. He has been a good player for Liverpool for a long time now and that’s a good thing,” Slot told reporters after Luis Diaz’s late ꦍstrike secured a quarter-final clash with Southampton at St Mary’s in December.
“For me, he is a regular starter. He is not starting every game. But he has started on ꧑a regular basis and he is in a tough competition with Luis Diaz, who, in the moment he went on the left, also scored a goal.
“So, that’s normal. If you play at a club like Liverpool, you have got two quality players for many positions. If you look at the way Joe Gomez played and also Jarell Quansah – who was maybe a bit unlucky with the goal꧑ we conceded because the overall performance I liked from them both as well – they are in competition with Virgil [van Dijk] and Ibou [Konate].
“So that’s what yo♔u have when you play at Liverpool. But, for me, Cody has been a regula✃r starter this season.”