Despite highlighting Dean’s potential involvement in the shot going in, Cole did hail Alexander-Arnold as a “special player”.
“That was a special goal from a special player and we do see it regularly but to pick up the ball from this distance, just out of his feet that is just as clean as you like,” he said.
“If you look at Mike Dean, I don’t know the rulings but he’s certainly affected the goalkeeper’s vision but in saying that it’s as clean as you can hit a football. It was crisp, it was top bins.”
Alexander-Arnold will next be in action on Sunday when Liverpool travel to Covid-hit Tottenham as they look to keep the pressure on league leaders Manchester City.
source: express.co.uk