Written by David Lynch, Liverpool expert:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n When attempts are made to rationalise this difficult Liverpool season, the word ‘transition’ often comes up.<\/p>\n The thing with transition seasons is, you have to show signs that change is indeed afoot, and that the team is moving towards a new, cohesive iteration.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for the Reds, there have been few such indications of a bright future ahead, with the defeats and poor performances starting early and continuing into the latter part of the campaign.<\/p>\n That is until today, when Fulham were swept aside by Liverpool side<\/strong> that offered genuine reasons for supporters to hope better days are coming.<\/p>\n Chief among them was the performance of 17-year-old Rio Ngumoha, who confirmed the growing suspicion that he is a superstar in waiting.<\/p>\n His dribbling skills were already well-known to supporters who have watched his early forays into the first team, largely in the domestic cups.<\/p>\n Here he showed he has started to add new tricks, including the beautiful curler he arrowed into the far corner with little backlift to open the scoring.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Iconsport \/ Sportimage, Sportimage Ltd \/ Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ngumoha followed up his goal with what felt like torch-passing moment, playing a key role in Mohamed Salah adding a second, showing that he is a capable creator as well as scorer.<\/p>\n Salah’s decline and the struggles of Cody Gakpo this term has made it feel like this Liverpool team is operating at times without sufficient quality in wide areas.<\/p>\n However, Ngumoha looks ready to ensure that won’t be the case in the years ahead, such is the scale of his promise.<\/p>\n For Arne Slot to convince supporters that he is the man to oversee Liverpool’s move into a new era without Salah and potentially spearheaded by Ngumoha, he desperately needs more showings like this between now and May.<\/p>\n However, this was a good start and something to build on after a three-game run of defeats that suggested the Dutchman’s race was run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by David Lynch, Liverpool expert: When attempts are made to rationalise this difficult Liverpool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Liverpool 2-0 Fulham: Rio\u00a0Ngumoha’s “torch-passing moment” with Mo Salah<\/h2>\n
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