Liverpool face Genk again in the Champions League.
Genk star Ianis Hagi has been raving about Liverpool midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Oxlade-Chamberlain scored twice in Liverpool’s away game against Genk a fortnight ago.
Hagi, son of Romanian legend Gheorge, has been talking up Oxlade-Chamberlain.
He told The Times: “Oxlade-Chamberlain, he’s a great player. Unfortunately the last couple of years he’s had these injuries and hasn’t played, but he’s doing such a great job. He’s a great player. He’s an essential part of Liverpool.
“But you can’t say just one player who is the danger for Liverpool. They make unexpected things happen.”
Liverpool paid £35 million to sign Oxlade-Chamberlain in 2017 from Arsenal.
An ACL injury cost him a year of his career, but now he is getting back to close to his best.
He has three goals in eight appearances this season. In his first season at Liverpool he scored five goals.
His last season at Arsenal he netted three times. To have equalled that already shows that he is well on course to reach new levels of success.
Genk know what he can do, and they will set up to try and stop him. This will only help the rest of his teammates take the Belgian side apart, in what has the potential to be a high scoring game at Anfield.
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