Liverpool’s goalkeeper manufacturing line has seen one other teenager who has “amazed” coaches this season, with excessive hopes for 17-year-old Kornel Misciur.
With Alisson, Caoimhin Kelleher, Vitezslav Jaros and shortly £29 million signing Giorgi Mamardashvili, Liverpool boast arguably the very best secure of goalkeepers on this planet.
That comes partly resulting from their stellar work in recruiting and growing younger stoppers, with Harvey Davies one other who has recurrently travelled with the primary workforce this season.
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Davies’ involvement at senior stage has seen Misciur, 17, promoted to first alternative for Liverpool U21s – and the teenager has excelled.
Signed from Hull in 2023, Misciur has proved himself an excellent shot-stopper, which was on present through the U19s’ 4-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen within the UEFA Youth League on Tuesday.
Chatting with reporters together with This Is Anfield after the victory, U21s coach Barry Lewtas hailed the event of his goalkeeper.
“As a lot of the ball you’ve gotten, you’re typically the vulnerable to the odd mistake, and we did make one or two errors that permit them form of soar on us,” he stated.
“However Kornel’s been superb. He actually has. He can play within the FA Youth Cup, Kornel, he’s performed each sport [for the] U21s.
“I believe he’s come on within the a part of his sport the place he must develop and he made some massive saves for us at the moment, no query.”
First-team plans
Misciur is recurrently known as as much as work with the first-team goalkeepers on the AXA Coaching Centre, which has notably been the case throughout Alisson‘s present layoff.
Whereas there could also be fewer new faces pictured in classes underneath Arne Slot than there have been throughout Jurgen Klopp‘s reign, Lewtas has burdened that the hyperlink between first workforce and academy stays robust.
“The lads have been spherical there an terrible lot, we go spherical there and we prepare. It’s been actually good,” he continued.
“Clearly Trey [Nyoni] got here on towards Brighton, there’s been a bit little bit of motion of gamers, Tyler Morton‘s performed just a few video games [for the U21s].
“It’s been sensible from that viewpoint. I don’t suppose there was ever going to be something totally different.
“Clearly when a brand new coach is available in you attempt to construct on the successes which have been there, and for me he’s been sensible – and on prime of that, his teaching employees have been sensible as effectively.
“So it’s our job simply to maintain enjoying, preserve performing and let’s see the place it goes.”
