"There were so many positives -- his physique, how he commanded his area, his comfort at building play -- but what immediately stood out was his decision-making. You can spend hours working on technical aspects but you have to have the natural ability to read situations and react so that you make the difficult things look simple."
Liverpool's goalkeeping coach John Achterberg is talking about a time in 2013 when, hunched in front of the laptop in his home office, he began dissecting footage of Alisson Becker. His first impression was so strong that he began compiling an extensive dossier on Brazil's No.