Gary Neville names 'perfect' Liverpool player who reminds him of Man Utd legend

Gary Neville

Gary Neville said that everything Mohamed Salahdoes is "perfect" after the Liverpool forward scored a goal and assisted another in Liverpool's win away to City

Liverpool moved 11 points clear at the top of the Premier League table courtesy of the 2-0 victory

Salah has been the Reds' talisman ever since he moved to Anfield in 2017 but he has taken his game to a new level this season

Salah’s goal at the Etihad Stadium moved him onto 30 for the season in all competitions

Neville piled praise on the 32-year-old after Liverpool's win at City

"He's been class for his whole time at Liverpool. He's unplayable at the moment, psychologically he's in the head of the opponent that he's up against.

“When you play against someone that you think, 'I'm gonna smash him, I'm gonna knock him, I'm gonna go through him' — you can't. He's like a brick wall.

“When that ball gets played up to him from 40-50 yards from Alisson and he's chesting it down and holding off Gvardiol who is six foot three like he's a little boy, and he's been doing that all season. I've not seen that in the past.

"When Van Dijk pings an 80-yard pass to him in the second half and you just know he's going to bring it down perfectly on a sixpence.

“Everything is so polished and so perfect and so slow.

“And when I say slow I mean, being in the final third is the most frantic place of a football pitch, but everything just feels so composed and slow motion when he's on the ball, you know he's going to play the pass at the right moment, you know it's going to be the right weight of pass, you know he's going to play the right cross, you know he's going to be efficient with his shooting.”

"He's at the top of his game, he's a different level to anything else in the league this season in terms of his performance levels and he is world class.

“Liverpool obviously will be desperate to try and keep him. He's one of the very best players that the Premier League has seen.

“That's 11 games this season that he's had a goal and an assist in each game, it's amazing, absolutely amazing."

Neville liked Salah's influence to the impact that Eric Cantona had on Manchester United's success during the 1990s.

Neville added:

“Van Dijk is special, Alisson is a great goalkeeper, and they've got other good players in the team.

“But I think that when you're a player who's sat back there in your shape for 90 minutes, and Van Dijk and Konate did it really well today, you always have to be most grateful for the player who goes and wins you the match, because that's the most difficult thing to do and the most special thing and that's what Salah has gone and done.“

"In my first title season at United, Cantona scored single goals and you just thought, 'that's the difference player, the player who just delivers at the most challenging moment, at the crux of the season when the title is on the line when you're playing against the best teams.' Who is going to stand up and win you the match? And that's what Salah is for Liverpool."