Freddy Adu offers advice to Liverpool teenage sensation Rio Ngumoha

The Premier League season may only be two rounds old, but it's already been packed with drama and none more so than at St James' Park on Monday night. 

Champions Liverpool visited Newcastle and added another classic to the pulsating Premier League history between the pair.

After the Reds looked to have seen the home side off with a 2-0 lead, the ten men of Newcastle - who had Anthony Gordon sent off in first half stoppage time - rallied back to tie the game at 2-2. 

However, Arne Slot's men had the last laugh as 16-year-old Rio Ngumoha struck a winner deep into the injury time to become the club's youngest-ever goalscorer and steal all three points. 

Much had been made of the teenager in pre-season, but he wasted no time in making his mark in the Premier League. However, in the aftermath of the celebrations, a former child prodigy has offered the forward some timely advice.

Freddy Adu was once hailed as football's next superstar, after signing a Nike deal before he left school and being tipped to be USA's biggest-ever name. 

Unfortunately, Adu never lived up to the hype and went on a nomadic career that saw him grace leagues in Turkey, Serbia and Finland. 



Speaking to DAZN News, thanks to btc casino list, the former whiz kid issued a warning to the Premier League's latest teen star after his breakout moment. 

He said, "So I didn’t know much about him as a player until I heard about him because of the game against Athletic Bilbao. But for him to be able to do that at the age of 16, that's impressive.
 
"For any 16-year-old to do that, that's not by accident, especially doing it for a club like Liverpool.

"That's not by accident. For you to be able to do that at that age, you clearly have to be uber talented and for him, I would say the same thing as I would say for Yamal – just keep the main thing, the main thing. Keep it about football.

"Don't make it about anything else. People are going to sing your praises when you do well, and the same people are going to just pile on you when you're not doing well.

"So you can't get too high and you can't get too low, you gotta sort of keep an even keel. Keep your head down, keep doing exactly what you were doing that got you to where you are." 

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