The new Rush and Kenny or the new Beardsley and Aldo?

THE ANFIELD GOAL-SCORING LEGEND PULLS NO PUNCHES ON HIS FORMER SIDE

- JOHN ALDRIDGE

ANFIELD has been a much happier place in the last week.

And much of that is down to the growing Liverpool partnership between Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz.

I loved the two goals Ekitike scored against Newcastle United on Saturday. Much has been made, and rightly so, about his second goal, but my favourite was definitely his first. That was a proper striker's goal, a toe-ender that beat the keeper. Sometimes you don't have to do a clever finish with the outside of the foot. As a striker your primary aim is just to get the ball in the net and you just want to do that by any means necessary. And Ekitike clearly has that desire simply to score, he reacted so well after good play from Wirtz inside the area.