Mane: Woodburn has big future

Liverpool youngster Ben Woodburn has the potential to be a “great player”, according to team-mate Sadio Mane.

The forward became Liverpool’s youngest-ever goalscorer at the age of 17 years and 45 days after scoring in front of the Kop in the 2-0 EFL Cup victory over Leeds on Tuesday.

That strike beat Michael Owen’s record by 98 days and Woodburn, who made his first-team debut with a cameo lasting barely a minute against Sunderland on Saturday before coming off the bench against Leeds, is being tipped for big things at the club.

“I want to congratulate him. He is a very good player and has a very good future,” Mane said. “I hope he will keep going and working hard and I think he will be a great player.

“Everyone was happy for him to score his first goal, especially in a big atmosphere at Anfield.”

In a team of eight changes against Leeds it was right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold, an 18-year-old academy contemporary of Woodburn, and 19-year-old Ovie Ejaria, making his fourth first-team appearance, who were the stand-out players in the starting …

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