Peter Crouch had some quality teammates during his three years at Liverpool, but there is a creative talent he believes would have helped him improve one aspect of his game.
Peter Crouch has nothing to complain about when it comes to playing alongside creators who provided him with goalscoring chances. The striker worked with Steven Gerrard and Xabi Alonso at Liverpool and later played with Gareth Bale at Tottenham Hotspur, a winger who knew how to place a cross.
Crouch was a creative player himself as well as a goalscorer, proving more Premier League assists than any other Liverpool player during his first two seasons at the club, setting up his teammates six and eight times respectively.
However, there is one player who Crouch believes would have helped him score more goals and it is none other than Trent Alexander-Arnold.
The West Derby born right-back used to be considered a homegrown hero around Anfield, but his summer move to Real Madrid has obliterated his relationship with the Liverpool supporters.
Speaking on his own ‘That Peter Crouch Podcast’, the former Liverpool striker praised Alexander-Arnold and could only dream of being on the end of his crosses.
“Sometimes when I see Trent’s crosses I’m like, ‘I would absolutely love to be on the end of them.’
I just look at him now, he’s deliveries and things like that, he hasn’t really had anyone to really bury loads of them, but he’s still the top assists all the time.”
Alexander-Arnold certainly knew how to find his teammates with clever passes and pinpoint crosses. One of the defender’s greatest moments came in the 2018–19 Champions League semi-final against Barcelona when he saw the backline had switched off and quickly fired in a cross to Divock Origi. That was the goal which sent Liverpool through to the final.
That was the season Alexander-Arnold really broke onto the scene as a major player at Liverpool, bagging 12 Premier League assists and 13 the next season. The England international assisted his teammates 64 times overall in the league in 259 appearances.
The 26-year-old’s tally did drop during his last couple of seasons at Liverpool and since joining Real Madrid he has just one assist to his name, which came against Juventus in the Club World Cup.
