Liverpool Fans Hail Isaac Mabaya For Impressive Cameo Against Manchester United

Liverpool Fans have singled out Isaac Mabaya for praises despite 4-0 loss against Manchester united in the Bangkok Century cup preseason encounter on Tuesday.

The 17-year-old British Zimbabwean natural midfielder who in the last 18 months has rather successfully learned the role of a forward thinking right-back in the Reds U18s, was handed his first senior start by manager Jurgen Klopp against arch rivals Manchester united and had a decent outing leaving fans expressing their delight on social media.

Though Mabaya was partly responsible for Jadon Sancho’s opening goal, after failing to clear the ball away, his overlapping runs down the right flank and a block to deny Marcus Rashford’s goal bound shot seems to have done enough to overshadow his earlier mistake.

Here is a selection of some of the tweets posted by Liverpool fans following Mabaya’s 35 minutes Cameo before replaced by Melkamu Frauendorf.

Isaac Mabaya and Harvey Elliott were up there for me, Isaac's pace is unreal.

— Fab (@lfcfab_) July 12, 2022

Isaac Mabaya…I think we’ve got another one fullback gem here 👀

— Watch LFC (@Watch_LFC) July 12, 2022

We can ignore the mistake, Isaac Mabaya has been quality.

— Harry 🇪🇺 (@Ifcharry) July 12, 2022

One thing I liked about Isaac Mabaya is that he's strong, quick and confident to receive the ball. He can be used in RCM role, if needed, to overlap with Trent and Salah. A few pre season games followed by domestic cup games would be good for him. #LFC

— FantasticFirmino9 (@MPBFirmino9) July 12, 2022

Isaac Mabaya looked really promising today. Obviously made the mistake, but looked really good going forward and he's only 17… Could be one to watch out for

— RBK (@RBKRobinB) July 12, 2022

17-year-old Isaac Mabaya is having a very decent game.

— 🌹 The Flying Lord Pig 🌹 🇵🇸😷 Old lefty 😷 🇺🇦 (@slinger_LFC) July 12, 2022

The England U18 international is guaranteed to have more senior team minutes during the preseason as Liverpool is scheduled for another preseason encounter against Crystal Palace during the week before leaving for a training camp in Austria.

Mabaya is one of the British born youngsters with Zimbabwean roots being tracked by Zimbabwe Warriors technical team.

His father is willing to help convince Mabaya to switch alligiance and represent Zimbabwe at senior level if leadership and administration improved in the running of football in the country.