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Trent Alexander Arnold is flying in the Premier League.

Strike is there and is to Alexander Arnold.

Who gets it for Liverpool?

What a moment for Trent Alexander Arnold.

A year on from playing a bit part role in Qatar and struggling for form at home, Trent is now excelling for club and country in a bespoke hybrid role.

It's not so much whether I'm a midfield or a fullback or anywhere on the pitch, whether it's an 8 to 6, a double pivot, whatever, it doesn't really matter.

It's just I'm a player who needs to get on the ball.

I'm a player that can and wants to dictate the game.

So, is unlocking his immense talent the key to Liverpool's title challenge?

And has he finally convinced Gareth Southgate that he has to find a starting place for him for England.

I'm Ayahuakim Alere. Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast.

I'm joined by the Athletics Liverpool writer James Pearce, senior football writer Olly Kay and also

data analyst Mark Carey.

Oof, where do we start?

I mean, yesterday was just a game of bangers, wasn't it?

From Endo to McAllister to obviously Trent, but we start with you on this, James.

Trent, two weeks on the bounce, rescuing Liverpool in vital games.

Yeah, he's in an incredible rich feign of form at the moment.

And, yeah, almost two Stephen Gerard-esque contributions, really, back to back in the

Premier League to lead that fight back at the Etiad in the way he did and salvage, you know,

a real hard-earned point against Manchester

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