Exciting winger is READY to join Liverpool after WORLD-CLASS performance

At time of writing, Liverpool sit on top of the Premier League, two points ahead of Manchester City.

Liverpool returned top yesterday after a blitz saw them score two goals in three minutes late on in the game to defeat Brighton 2-1.

Manchester City, meanwhile, fell to an unexpected 2-1 defeat at Bournemouth. The title holders were fully outclassed on the day, giving up waves of attacks to an exciting, young Bournemouth side under manager Andoni Iraola.

Before the game yesterday morning, Sky Sports News Editor Lyall Thomas tweeted out that, amongst others, Liverpool are interested in Bournemouth attacker Antoine Semenyo as they plan for the future.

The rumours almost certainly have credability too, with new sporting director Richard Hughes being technical director at Bournemouth when Semenyo was signed.

It probably helped, then, that Semenyo played what was probably his best game of the season so far against City, earning a 9.0 rating on FotMob.

City looked placid but Semenyo was everywhere, involved with everything good that Bournemouth did on the day.

He pressed Nathan Ake to win the ball back as the defender wandered into no-mans-land, and then sprinted in behind to be found by Marcus Tavernier with his shot being saved well by Ederson.

After this, he opened the scoring by tracking Liverpool-linked Milos Kerkez’s mazy run past Phil Foden, taking up a central position in the box, trapping Kerkez’s cross before spinning and dispatching it with impressive athleticism.

The second half proved no different. He took a great touch from Marcos Senesi’s long ball just 50 seconds into the half to play Evanilson in for another good chance saved by Ederson.

After this, Semenyo dribbled his way out of the City press and found Kerkez with an inch-perfect pass, who played Evanilson in for the second.