Gary Neville opens up on the conversation he had with Trent Alexander-Arnold which blew him away

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Fairly? 🤔 Neville says Alexander-Arnold’s knowledge surprised himAlexander-Arnold inevitably came up in conversation during Andy Robertson’s appearance alongside Neville, Jamie Carragher and the rest of this week’s episode of The Overlap.After asking Robertson how we felt about the criticism his full-back colleague used to receive from the English media, Neville opened up on a conversation he had with Alexander-Arnold and his mum, which made it clear to him just how passionate he is about football.“I interviewed him for The Overlap for two or three hours. You sometimes look at him and think because he’s so relaxed on the pitch, the way in which he composes himself, you think it just comes naturally to him, but his work ethic and his actual understanding of the game is incredible.

He knew more about football in terms of the modern game than I ever thought.”READ MORE: Andy Robertson explains why Milos Kerkez has struggled at Liverpool, ‘I feel sorry for him’Robertson ‘felt sorry’ for Alexander-ArnoldThough Neville may have been surprised, Robertson would know all about Alexander-Arnold’s love for football having spent years as one of his closest friends in the Liverpool squad.And according to the Scotsman, any and all criticism of the former Reds No. He claims that the way Liverpool’s team was set up to defend often made Alexander-Arnold look a worse defender than he really was.“I think it’s just part of football, sometimes people focus on what we can’t do.

You can only talk so highly of people and sometimes the conversation has to turn,” he said.“In Trent’s best games he was an unbelievable one-on-one defender. At times he maybe made mistakes, we all make mistakes, but it’s as if he had this stigma around him that he can’t defend from a very early age and it’s as if he can’t shift it.“The way we defended was very different, Sadio [Mane] helped me out so I knew I could probably be a bit more aggressive and if I missed, Sadio was hopefully going to be there.