On-fire Liverpool youngster is surely set for a promotion after stunning start to the season

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Andoni Iraola has already shown his willingness to trust Liverpool’s young players, with Tuesday’s Carabao Cup win over Tottenham providing even more evidence.Trey Nyoni, Rio Ngumoha, James McConnell and, most notably, Lewis Koumas, were all picked from the start, and showed why Iraola was right to give them their opportunities.After perhaps starting to feel frozen out under the leadership of Arne Slot, Liverpool’s academy talents can see that the pathway to the first-team is very much there with Iraola now at the helm. Who should be Liverpool’s designated penalty-taker this season?

Nevertheless, he still managed a healthy return of six goals and five assists in 18 appearances for the U21s.This season promises much more for the teenager, and having hit a brilliant double against Brighton on Saturday, he now has three goals in three Premier League 2 matches this term.Both of Wright’s goals on Saturday were taken brilliantly. The conditions have to be right in terms of the first-team needing a player in their position.In Wright’s case, luckily for him, Liverpool do currently have a vacancy in the striker position.

Until Hugo Ekitike is back to full fitness, Iraola will have to try a number of different options as back-up to Isak.So far, Koumas has been taking his chance in that regard, but Wright is more of a natural goalscorer than his older colleague, and with Jayden Danns still being eased back in, he is surely next in line here.Danns played the final half an hour of Saturday’s U21s match, which ended in a 5-1 win for Liverpool, and he is further along than Wright in his development. But with the former Salford striker in this kind of form, it will be hard for Iraola to overlook him if he decides to use someone other than Koumas, Cody Gakpo or Federico Chiesa, who remains injured.From there it will be up to Wright to make sure he stays in the reckoning, but right now, he is doing everything he can to show that he should be handed a first-team promotion.