Woodburn should become a Scholes; Hoever’s size; Camacho’s actual role; Brewster’s future

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Name: Rafael Camacho
Age: 18 Years, 11 months
Nationality: Portuguese Related image
Position: Right Back, Winger

Signed from Sporting Lisbon almost 3 years ago, Rafael Camacho has been on the fringes of the first team for almost a year now. He was handed the #64 shirt when he was first named on the bench, back in April 2018, for the Merseyside derby.

He then enjoyed an impressive pre-season for the Reds as he saw plenty of time on the pitch, due to Trent Alexander-Arnold being on World Cup duty with England. He had to wait until January 2019, for the FA Cup 3rd round tie at Wolves, to make his senior debut for the Reds. However, he struggled to have much impact on a game that Wolves largely controlled against a second string for the Reds.

He made his league debut weeks later, coming off the bench in the final moments against Crystal Palace at Anfield, where he memorably nicked the ball away from Zaha in the box to prevent a dangerous chance for Palace.

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While we have mostly seen him at right back in pre-season and his few minutes in the Liverpool first team in competitive action, he was playing at his more familiar right wing role today.

He will earn the plaudits for a hat-trick but how he played the role tactically was very impressive. He showed a good understanding with Brewster and there was a lot of positional rotation between the pair. They would take it in turns to come off the line short while the other would be stretching play vertically running in behind. They were constantly forcing the opponents to track their movement which was creating space inside their shape, between the lines. The main benefactor of this movement was often Jones who was able to isolate a defender ball-far-side all too often when play was switched out to him.

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It would be wrong though not to talk about his goals. The first was almost Yeboah-esque in its beauty of pin-balling around inside the goal once it crossed the line due to the power behind it when it hit the underside of the bar. You can put 11 goalkeepers in there and you still don’t stop that shot.

The 6th goal, and the one that claimed his hat-trick, was the one that best exemplified that running off the shoulder mentioned above. The warning signs were there throughout the game as he was flagged offside on several marginal calls while trying to time his run to perfection. Here though, he stays level with the last man, drifts slightly right to stay in that space just outside the defence while also making a better angle for the through ball, then he tucks the ball in the corner with a tidy finish when it gets to him.

Jurgen Klopp loves a versatile player and Camacho is almost Mané-like in his ability to play anywhere across the front line. However, with a lack of quality full backs in world football, it seems that will be his best chance of getting a chance with the first team here. No doubt we see him do so in the summer once more in pre-season.

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