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Trent Alexander-Arnold has revealed how his mum was reduced to tears after she learned he was starting for Liverpool against Manchester United last week.

The teenage right-back was thrust into the starting lineup for his Premier League debut after a rib injury to Nathaniel Clyne, and the youngster acquitted himself well at Old Trafford against France international Anthony Martial.

Alexander-Arnold has already been a part of the first team during League Cup and FA Cup games this term, but Sunday's 1-1 draw with United was his maiden taste of Premier League action.

And he told the club's official website how his mother was moved to tears after he told her manager Jurgen Klopp had picked him for such a huge game.

He said: "When I called her and told her, she just started crying and that's when I realised it's not just me it is happening to, it is everyone around me as well, which is a good feeling to have.

"She just told me to go on and do the best I can and don't worry about what happens and that's what I did."

Alexander-Arnold also told of how Klopp waited until midday to tell the starlet he was in the side.

"I wasn't aware at all the day before," he said.

"We all stayed over in the hotel in Manchester and I think about 12 in the afternoon, the manager told me I was starting the game and asked if I was ready and I said: 'Yes'.

"From then on I knew I was starting and I think it was a good thing knowing [late] as if I had known the day before, I might not have had the best of sleeps.

"So to find out that late on was a good thing."

Regular right-back Clyne returned to training on Friday, but Alexander-Arnold could be set to make his seventh Reds appearance when they host Swansea at Anfield on Saturday afternoon.