If Jonathan Woodgate’s infamous Real Madrid bow belongs at one end – with Wayne Rooney’s Champions League hat-trick against Fenerbahce at the other – then Liam Millar’s sparkling Preston North End debut certainly falls far closer to the latter than the former on the scale of first-team debuts. Not content with setting up Duane Holme’s opener within seconds of the kick off, then opened his own account on the 25th minute; making pretzels out of the Plymouth backline before cooly slotting into the far corner. Photo by Dave Howarth – CameraSport via Getty Images Millar took to at full-time to reflect on a ‘dream debut’, and his remarkable impact is the latest in a season chock-full of success stories for Ryan Lowe’s surprise-packages.
Liam Millar, we watched him in training this week and put him over on the left side.
He marked his debut for Liverpool’s U18s with a hat-trick against Blackburn Rovers back in 2016 after all.
He is an athlete, he doesn’t stop and he harries,” Gerrard, then Millar’s coach in the Liverpool academy, in 2018.