In the city of “Hey Jude”, Bellingham failed to take a sad song and make it better for Real Madrid. Real fans draped club scarves around the statues of the four Beatles by the Mersey but didn’t even get that close to Liverpool icons at Anfield. Bellingham tried hard.
Real Madrid’s towering attacking midfielder is one of the most gifted footballers that English football has produced in the last 30 years. He’s tall and powerful, strong technically and mentally, yet he divides opinion. Any fair assessment of Bellingham’s performance would acknowledge his mistakes that led to Liverpool’s goal but balance that by reflecting that he created Real’s best chance and how hard he worked for the team, in and out of possession.
