Arsenal manager trusted his young full-back against the explosive Mohamed Salah and Maitland-Niles can be pleased with his performance
Perhaps, in the kind of skewed reading that meetings between Arsenal and Liverpool have come to invite, this fixture was the perfect laboratory for a young full-back making his way.
By the time Ainsley Maitland-Niles, 20 years old and making his third Premier League start, left the field he could at least assure himself that nobody would have noticed any ragged edges very much.
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