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Trent Alexander-Arnold took a deep breath, placed his hands on his hips and began to compute the distance to goal.
At the end of week that has been filled with frustration, headlines and conjecture, fate handed him the chance to become a hero. In the first minute of stoppage time, here he stood 25 yards out, just right of centre and in the kind of position that, in the past, he has done such damage.
Slowly he began to run, back came his right foot and then it was brought forward with a whoosh, sweeping the ball in an arc towards the Anfield Road end net. Was this the moment he was about to banish all his frustrations? In a word, no.
Trent Alexander-Arnold once again endured a difficult afternoon at Anfield on Saturday
Alexander-Arnold — and Liverpool for that matter — are in a place where there is nothing romantic or picture perfect so, rather than nestle in the bottom corner, his free-kick was turned around the post
