Trent Alexander-Arnold dazzles as Liverpool put bad memories to bed | Barney Ronay

Right-back’s brilliance against Atlético Madrid helped Anfield move on from the unsettling pre-pandemic fixture of 2020

Was this a kind of closure? Not really. But it felt like a marker along the way.

This Champions League game will be remembered for two things. First, as a way of putting to bed that unsettling, unloved pre‑pandemic game, Liverpool versus Atlético Madrid, March 2020, the last dance before the shutters came down. And second for a brilliant performance from the local boy, Trent Alexander‑Arnold, who oozed around Anfield reeling off moments of clarity and precision, using that beautifully expressive right foot to sketch in the corners, the details, the shape of the game in a decisive first half.