Raheem Sterling was selected for Liverpool last night, and he shone in their 1-0 victory away to Hearts.
In a game where Liverpool failed to excite, 17 year old Raheem Sterling played an amazing 90 minutes in which he displayed the qualities so often bragged about by admirers to help Liverpool gain a narrow advantage to take into the second leg at Anfield.
Here are some of the plaudits gathered from Twitter:
@PaulBoyham Very impressive first start from Sterling. Henderson good too. Adam faded. Shelvey very poor.
@Lyandra Sterling and Allen outstanding tonight. Jack Robinson also very good. Promising.
@iSamwisee Raheem Sterling is a cracking wee player! #Future
@Simply_Soe #Sterling was #ManOfTheMatch by a country mile. Thought #Downing looked good at left-back #Lfc
@BigYous_ Raheem Sterling is a talent
@Daraditya_Spsi man of the match nya Raheem Sterling 🙂 wonderkid Liverpool
@kenny11169 Sterling played awesome tonight 🙂
@Sean_Grennan Sterling looked good tonight
@EmadZafar Best thing about Sterling was he didn’t turn off in patches in the in match. Was a constant live wire throughout.
@ub3rmikesingh Sterling man of the match, let’s hope he is in Rodgers mind for the first 11.
@AliaLiverpool MOTM: Sterling,obviously. so so good.
@onesinga Raheem ‘The Dream’ Sterling.
@aidenriley_ Good win there sterling was class
@ConnorwilsonLFC As for Raheem Sterling a think use all know how he played completely different class 17 years of age! #BigFuture
@LFCAnalysis Rodgers on Sterling: “He’s tactically improving all the time, has good intelligence and very exciting, he was a real threat all game.”
What did you make of the youngster’s performance?
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