Conor Bradley has been described as “outstanding” by Arne Slot after the performance he put in against Real Madrid on Tuesday.

Bradley was one of Liverpool’s best players on the night with Vinicius Jr not getting anywhere near the goal.

His last-ditch tackles coupled with his attacking prowess made it close to impossible for the Brazilian to get around him, which resulted in him trying to get fouls by diving.

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A lot of questions have been asked about Liverpool’s right-back this term with neither Bradley nor Jeremie Frimpong playing all that well at the start of the term.

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However, if the Northern Irishman can keep his performances to this level, there’s no reason why he can’t thrive now that Trent Alexander-Arnold is gone.

Going into the tie on Tuesday, many thought that Liverpool would end up getting pummelled.

Real Madrid have one of the best attacks in the world and with how fragile the Reds’ defence has been over the last few weeks, it felt like there was no way for it to end in Liverpool’s favour.

However, Bradley clearly had other ideas with Slot now...