‘Back to their best’: Rangers legend Kris Boyd praises two Liverpool players

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Kris Boyd has claimed that Liverpool’s fullbacks, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Kostas Tsimikas, were ‘back to their best’ against Rangers in the Champions League on Tuesday night.

The Rangers legend added that Liverpool’s fullbacks, alongside their forward line, were too hot to handle for Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side.

The message to the Rangers players would have been clear from the get-go, keep it quiet, frustrate the Anfield crowd, feed off their mistakes and then get at them.

But it doesn’t help matters when, the previously-criticised Alexander-Arnold, steps up and pin-points a free-kick into the top corner inside ten minutes.

That just put the Gers on the back foot and they had to sustain a lot of pressure for most of the game, with Mohamed Salah adding a cushion for his team in the second half when he scored from the penalty spot.

Nonetheless, this is what Boyd made of the game, the performances of the two fullbacks and Liverpool’s forward players, as he told Soccer Special on Sky Sports News.

“You have to give Liverpool a lot of credit,” said Boyd. “They have been really at it. They have been sharp.

“The front three or four, the interchanging from them has been excellent. They have gone up against Rangers’ back three and asked questions about them. Salah is floating about and getting on the ball.

“From a Liverpool point of view, the two fullbacks have been back to their best. Stretching their game wide and Rangers are struggling to deal with the width.”

CAN RANGERS ROAR BACK AT IBROX?

As Liverpool know too well, on European nights, they can make Anfield a nightmare place to play in for those on the other side.

Whilst not many would have backed the Glasgow club to get anything from yesterday’s game, there might be some thinking differently at Ibrox. 

With the home crowd behind them, if the Gers avoid conceding that early goal, and set the pace themselves, which is easier said than done, then the home crowd will really get on Liverpool’s backs.

It’s never easy playing any from home in Europe and if Rangers are to cause an upset, or pick up the first points of their Champions League campaign, then it’s going to be in front of their own crowd.