'Arrogance' - Jamie Carragher makes feelings clear on Dominik Szoboszlai moment

Dominik Szoboszlai's crucial cross helped Liverpool secure a dramatic 97th-minute winner against Nottingham Forest on Sunday, with Jamie Carragher hailing the midfielder's "football arrogance"

Jamie Carragher has offered his opinion(Image: Getty Images)

Jamie Carragher believes the "football arrogance" of Dominik Szoboszlai has enabled the in-form Liverpool star to consider himself "one of the best players in the Premier League."

The Hungary captain has been amongst the standout performers for the Reds this season, netting 10 goals and registering seven assists, and he played a pivotal role in the team's 97th-minute winner from Alexis Mac Allister in Sunday's 1-0 triumph over Nottingham Forest.

It was Szoboszlai's cross for Virgil van Dijk that enabled Mac Allister to fire home late on, and in his post-match analysis for Sky Sports, Carragher pinpointed the midfielder's growing sense of authority within the squad as the driving force behind Liverpool's ability to secure its third stoppage-time victory of the campaign.

With his confidence at an all-time high, Reds icon Carragher believes Szoboszlai has elevated his game to new heights at Anfield.

"Now this ball comes to Dominik Szoboszlai, and the thing I love about this is the actual football arrogance of it," Carragher said. "But we'll come back to that when we look at it from another angle, but this, the quality is absolutely fantastic.

"And I think again, Virgil van Dijk does brilliantly because he keeps that ball alive. I don't think Virgil van Dijk is trying to score.

Dominik Szoboszlai helped Liverpool get over the line on Sunday(Image: Getty Images)

"But when I talk about football arrogance with Szoboszlai, that ball comes to him now, it's easy to do that (play it back to Joe Gomez), and maybe if he loses the ball there I am criticising him. It's easy to go there (to Andy Robertson), and maybe they are the right passes.

"But I think that last season or the year before, Szoboszlai makes those (more straightforward) passes.

"I think now he is has got that arrogance (to say), 'I'm one of the best players in this team.

"I am one of the best players in the Premier League and European football, and I am going to make something happen here.'

"So he decides to almost take on his man when he does have easy passes, and that comes from confidence, arrogance. Not on the left foot, he just gets half a yard, and then he puts it in.

"And then for me, Van Dijk at that back post now, who I think is just trying to keep it alive and put it in an area.

"And listen, full credit to Alexis Mac Allister. He had a really poor game, Mac Allister, along with a lot of Liverpool players in the game, but he gets the winning goal.

"But look at this from Szoboszlai, it's brilliant. He's just waiting to get that half a yard, and he's got it now — and can he deliver? Yes, he can. Credit to Van Dijk and credit to Mac Allister."