
When coming up with a list of the more in-form final-third productivity merchants in the Premier League, Joel Matip probably isn’t the name who usually springs to mind.
Maybe that’s overstating it somewhat, but the newest Player of the Month has scored one and assisted twice now in his last five matches, and it was he who found the time and clarity in his delivery to help Liverpool open the scoring at Brighton, en route to a 2-0 win.