This summer time marks seven years because the arrival of Alisson Becker at Liverpool, with the Brazilian briefly turning into the world’s costliest goalkeeper at £ 67m earlier than being usurped by Kepa Arrizabalaga.
The number one place had been problematic at Anfield all through the 2010s. The last decade started with the primary indicators of Pepe Reina’s decline, with the Spaniard having beforehand been wonderful.
He left in 2013 and his place was taken by Simon Mignolet, who had his moments however by no means actually satisfied on Merseyside and in the end gave method to Loris Karius within the Reds’ beginning XI. Sadly, the German’s nightmare efficiency within the 2018 Champions League remaining successfully ended his LFC profession.
Therefore Liverpool’s determination to go massive on Alisson, who performed towards them for AS Roma lower than three months earlier than his arrival in L4. They rolled the cube and the calculated gamble paid off handsomely.
Alisson has been transformational for Liverpool
Ever-present in his first Premier League season, he conceded just one extra top-flight purpose (22) than recorded clear sheets (21), numbers which might’ve appeared impossible for the Reds just some months earlier than he joined.
It’s no exaggeration to say that Liverpool’s Champions League triumph in 2019 wouldn’t have occurred had been it not for Alisson. With out his unbelievable point-blank save on the finish of the tense group stage win over Napoli, we wouldn’t have even made it into the knockout rounds.
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Simply 23 targets had been let in throughout our Premier League triumph the next season, and a yr later he was LFC’s saviour within the unlikeliest trend when, with a top-four end on the road, he popped up with a stoppage-time winner away to West Brom.
The emotional launch from that purpose was big for the Reds after a troublesome marketing campaign through which their title defence sank like a stone, and even larger for the goalkeeper after the tragic demise of his father a couple of months earlier.
He loved one other terrific particular person season in 2021/22, with 20 clear sheets within the prime flight and solely 24 targets conceded, and nonetheless had 14 league shutouts the next yr regardless of Liverpool slumping to a fifth-place end.
With the brand new Premier League season on the horizon and Liverpool coming into a contemporary period below Arne Slot, followers around the globe are wanting to see what comes subsequent — particularly with Alisson nonetheless guarding the web like few others can. Streaming matches stay isn’t all the time simple outdoors the UK, with regional restrictions typically blocking entry. That’s why many supporters use a VPN service to comply with each match securely, regardless of the place they’re on this planet.
Alisson hailed as one of the best goalkeeper on this planet
Regardless of lacking a number of video games by way of harm, which gave Caoimhin Kelleher his probability to shine, Alisson was once more a vital part in his staff profitable a second Premier League title on this decade in Arne Slot’s first marketing campaign at Anfield.
Few would have disagreed with the Dutchman when, after a generational masterclass from his #1 towards eventual Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain in March, he labelled the 32-year-old ‘one of the best goalkeeper on this planet’.
Should you solely started to look at Liverpool since 2018, you’d in all probability refuse to consider that the goalkeeping place was so chaotic for a few years beforehand. Over the previous seven years, Alisson has remodeled one of many least secure elements of the staff into arguably essentially the most trusted of all.
