A rare talent emerging for club and country

Manchester City are suddenly looking ominous, especially if you are an Arsenal fan. Erling Haaland looks back to his voracious best and the creatives behind him are slowly but surely going through the gears preparing for a sprint finish.

For all the huge amount of talent and money spent on the likes of Antoine Semenyo, Bernardo Silva, Omar Marmoush, Rayan Cherki and Tijjani Reijnders, it was homegrown Nico O'Reilly who stole the show and not just because of his two goals.

To have that level of power, pace, skill and game awareness at his age is very rare. What's more, that ability to play anywhere from left back to number 10 - and I suspect he would be perfectly good as a centre forward or centre-back too - is bordering on unique at the top level.

He has scored 11 goals in 60 appearances, perfectly good numbers for a wide attacker, but he didn't start all of those games and most of them were as a left full-back.

Given his height and incredible versatility, he is fast becoming impossible for England to ignore. Even though O'Reilly only has one cap and Thomas Tuchel is spoiled for choice in the attacking areas, here is an emerging talent who probably should be on that plane across the pond.

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