A sad week, to say goodbye to a Liverpool legend.
(Okay, two Liverpool legends, and a couple of other lads who could have been legends, but for injuries after really good starts.)
But there's a reason Liverpool achieved something usually reserved for fairly elite teams: a seven-game league winning streak, and had an eighth denied by several subjective VAR calls that all fell incorrectly (bar the Villa penalty) against the Reds.
One of those was an excellent goal by Cody Gakpo, the man who I feel can offer even more than Roberto Firmino (assuming he doesn't need an operation on the removal of six studs from his chest).
In the end, it was maybe fitting that Firmino got the final goal in the 90th minute with a karate-kick that, unlike Mings', endangered only the ball.
There will never be anyone quite like Firmino, and what he could do; but in many ways, Gakpo can do more.
Their data is already similar, as I will show; but Gakpo is only a few months into life in English football, and to compare the two at the same stage would see Gakpo miles ahead.
Gakpo is worth celebrating, especially as, like the sadly departing Firmino, he has outstanding underlying numbers that people may miss if they're just looking at goals scored.
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