Dominik Szoboszlai was not alone in hailing the performances of Lewis Koumas and James McConnell for Liverpool against Tottenham Hotspur on Tuesday evening, going so far as to claim that the pair of youngsters “deserve to play” regularly for this expensively assembled Reds team.
Neither Koumas, 20, nor McConnell, 22, have ever made a Premier League start for Liverpool but bounded into the Carabao Cup third-round tie at Anfield with the exact type of infectious energy which Andoni Iraola has been pining after this season.