Best individual performance of the season: Coutinho during Liverpool 2-1 Manchester City
Our Brazilian magician taught the country’s most renowned playmaker, David Silva, a footballing lesson this March afternoon. Not only did he curl a now trademark beauty past Joe Hart from range, but he beat players at will, found clever pockets of space and played deft flicks and tricks to bamboozle Yaya Toure and Fernandinho in City’s midfield. Neither could get near him. It was a performance that symbolised Coutinho’s emergence as one of our most exciting attacking midfielders in recent memory.
