Liverpool Under-21s head coach Barry Lewtas has a lot of time for youngster Kaide Gordon.

Lewtas watched his promising young team beat Stoke City's U21s in Premier League 2 on Sunday.

After the 3-1 win, Lewtas took the time to talk about the performance and injury comeback of Gordon.

He stated to club media: Kaide was brilliant. Just when I thought he was tiring towards the end of the game he made a massive run into the box to defend. He was sparkling out there!

Listen, not to single anyone out because I thought we as a team were good, but he was brilliant first half in between the lines. The way we set up really suited him as well, just playing a little bit more inside the pitch and showing a different side to his game and dribbling centrally. His work-rate has been brilliant, we showed the lads a video of our game against Fulham and Kaide was doing similar things.

Let's hope he can continue in this way because you've got to remember Kaide has been out for such a long while.

Everyone is talking about Koumas and [Jayden] Danns but Kaide is like an old-timer now despite the fact he is only 19 himself. He's still got much more to come but more games like that and more rhythm, he will soon be back to where he wants to be."

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