When Alan Shearer is impressed by a striker, you sit up and take notice. The former Newcastle front man was the best of his generation, and one of the greatest centre-forwards the English game has ever had, so he knows a thing or two about what’s required to be a success as an attacker. Against Liverpool on Wednesday night, Arsenal’s Reiss Nelson certainly caught Shearer’s eye. “I was really impressed, there was no panic at all for someone from so young,” Shearer said on Premier League Productions and cited by the Daily Express. “He won’t have been in that position many times, but he doesn’t panic. He takes the touch with the left foot and sticks it away with the right....
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