{"id":869739,"date":"2026-10-03T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869739\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T20:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:22:08","slug":"liverpool-star-prompts-incredible-verdict-from-zinedine-zidane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869739\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool star prompts incredible verdict from Zinedine Zidane"},"content":{"rendered":"

France manager, Zinedine Zidane, was so taken aback by a Liverpool<\/a> player he repeated the same phrase four times when assessing his performance.<\/p>\n

After five years away, Zidane<\/a> is back in management having succeeded Didier Deschamps in the French hotseat.<\/p>\n

The icon oversaw successive victories to begin his tenure as Les Bleus boss, with France beating Turkey and Belgium in the Nations League.<\/p>\n

Next up were Italy, and after Zidane handed Liverpool\u2019s Jeremy Jacquet<\/a> his senior debut against Belgium, another start was forthcoming against the Italians.<\/p>\n

There was to be no clean sheet for France, with the final score a 1-1 draw. Nevertheless, it was Reds new boy Jacquet who received the highest praise from Zidane post-match.<\/p>\n

When speaking about the centre-back, the 54-year-old declared<\/a>: \u201cVery good. Very, very good. Brave.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wasn\u2019t afraid to come out a long way. Very good in the duels. He was, once again, very good. I said it four times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacquet joined Liverpool<\/a> from Rennes over the summer in a deal worth \u00a355m plus \u00a35m in add-ons. If the past few months are anything to go by, Liverpool underpaid.<\/p>\n

Jacquet has already struck up a dominant partnership with Virgil van Dijk and the pair helped the Reds kepe three successive clean sheets prior to the international break.<\/p>\n

At just 21 years of age, Liverpool have a real player on their hands, and hopefully from their perspective, for the better part of the next decade at least.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Jacquet outshines every France teammate<\/p>\n

Eurosport <\/a>reporter, Martin Mosnier, assessed every French player on the night, and it was Jacquet with his mark of 7.5 who received the highest rating. No other Frenchman even received a 7.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s extremely rare to see a central defender at this level after just two caps,\u201d wrote Mosnier.<\/p>\n

\u201cJacquet played like a true leader, relentlessly pressing the Italians right up to their own penalty area.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHyper-aggressive, the former Rennes player prevented the Azzurri from imposing their rhythm and allowed Les Bleus to win back possession in crucial areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis pinpoint pass to Dembele (27th minute) demonstrated his immense confidence, and his ball distribution was often a model of conviction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France manager, Zinedine Zidane, was so taken aback by a Liverpool player he repeated the same phrase four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[424,24663,45047,3450,3,1084,403,99,72012],"class_list":["post-869739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-front-page","tag-home-page","tag-jeremy-jacquet","tag-liverpool","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-zinedine-zidane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}