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00:00That's what I like about Barnes, maybe he's been half-criticised in some respects when I've said he should be looking at Jacob Murphy and saying that lad works his socks off, works all the time.
00:13Harvey Barnes probably might look and say I'm probably more gifted as a footballer than him so why shouldn't I be getting game time?
00:20I've always thought you've just got to look at what Murphy does, he grafts for the team and that's why the manager trusts him.
00:25Barnes did that, he was tracking back, he was in position, he was covering and what I liked about him was he went on the outside.
00:32Now we know he can do the cut-in and half the time he fires it off shins and he puts the odd one in the net, he's a great finisher, there's no getting away from that.
00:39But what they needed was somebody to go on the outside in that game to stretch the full-back who, yes he's a centre-half and he might be a decent centre-half but he's not a right-back and he doesn't want wingers running past him.
00:49It's a centre-half's nightmare, he doesn't want that and that's where Barnes took him and I thought that was really, really positive.
00:54Murphy, he had a bit of a Murphy game but look he worked hard like everybody else and that header for the Isak Gore, how sad.
01:01The stars aligning.
01:02It was, he always finds him, he always finds him, didn't find him with a cross in the first half which Isak wasn't happy about.
01:08In midfield three, Joe Lincoln was just otherworldly, he was head and shoulders.
01:16I know there's a lot of sentiment about the game and Dan Burnham, obviously you're right in what you said.
01:21For me, if I was to evaluate purely on a football performance, Joe Lincoln, there was not a player like him on that pitch.
01:26He was unbelievable and I thought the two full-backs were probably not that far behind him.
01:31Then you might say someone like Burn for Tonali had a really good performance in terms of his covering and everything that he did.
01:38I thought one thing that went under the radar was some of his gamesmanship, just the undoing of the laces.
01:45But I was pointing one out to you for the Nick Pope save, where Pope makes that save.
01:50Tonali goes down and he's only got a little scratch on the inside of his leg, he's not really injured.
01:55Stays down and Curtis Jones runs up the Liverpool fans behind the goal and has given it that and the end erupted.
02:01And it was momentum and Tonali staying down for that two, three minutes that he did just killed the momentum and the corner came in and they cleared it.
02:08And the funniest bit about it was the referee forgot about him and he stayed on the pitch after his treatment and didn't even get ushered off the back.
02:14But it was little bits of gamesmanship like that where Bruno was brilliant in the second half I would say.
02:19Where he had to win the fouls apart from his stupid Maradona turn.
02:23But we'll forgive him that.
02:26And Isak is just Alexander Isak, barely got a kick in that game but when was needed.