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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sport
Ben Parsons

Football fans are finally starting to realise why it's called a 'nutmeg'

Oleksandr Zinchenko was pictured looking distraught on the Arsenal bench after being 'nutmegged' by Trent Alexander-Arnold moments earlier in the build up to Liverpool's equaliser at Anfield.

It appeared that the Ukrainian defender was bearing the full weight of responsibility for the mistake that allowed Roberto Firmino to head home and deny the Gunners a potentially-defining victory in the Premier League title race. Alexander-Arnold made up for his own defensive lapses to skip past Zinchenko and float an inch-perfect cross to substitute Firmino, who broke Arsenal hearts late on.

Zinchenko was too easily beaten by his Liverpool counterpart and was clearly affected as he was immediately replaced by Kieran Tierney in the closing stages on Merseyside. But the 26-year-old was not the first, and certainly won't be the last to feel the embarrassment of having the ball kicked through his legs on the biggest stage.

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