It should have been a dream come true for Steven Gerrard’s son, Lio, on Saturday, as he walked out at Anfield alongside his hero Mohamed Salah.
“My Lio, he’s obsessed,” Gerrard informed Salah of their sit-down for LFCTV earlier this 12 months.
“He loves you greater than me, you’re the one human he loves greater than me! I’m second.”
Day, week, month, 12 months made for Lio Gerrard, then, as he walked out as mascot for Saturday’s 3-2 win over Nottingham Forest.
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Copying his dad, the youthful Gerrard got here out together with his arms on his hips earlier than holding Salah’s as they made their approach onto the pitch earlier than kickoff.
He then joined Gerrard within the stands to look at a uninteresting first half, earlier than heading again to the centre circle because the pair met two followers for a half-time competitors.
There was alternative for Lio to take a penalty in entrance of the Kop – and, clearly, rating to rapturous applause.
Lio Gerrard scores a penalty in entrance if the Kop at half-time as Steven Gerrard watches on. pic.twitter.com/ag8jDgJDc8
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It isn’t the primary time Lio Gerrard has been on the pitch at Anfield, in fact, although – he has joined his dad through the LFC Legends charity video games of late.
However to emerge from the tunnel subsequent to Salah might have been even higher.
In February, Gerrard revealed the newest addition to his son’s bed room, as native artist MurWalls painted a duplicate of the Liverpool dressing room to enhance his mural of Salah, Luis Diaz and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
With Gerrard having been relieved of his duties at Aston Villa again in October – and in no rush to take his subsequent supervisor’s job – there was lots extra time for him and his son to look at Liverpool.
And with seven video games left to play this season, there may be even an opportunity for Lio to see Salah overtake his dad because the fifth-highest goalscorer within the membership’s historical past.
