Conor Bradley: Liverpool defender discusses 'dream start' to career and names his toughest opponent
At the age of 20 Conor Bradley is living his dream.
The boyhood Liverpool fan has made a stunning impact in the first team this season, scoring a first senior goal, winning a trophy and producing a series of excellent displays when Trent Alexander-Arnold has been injured.
Sunday was a rare setback, a last gasp extra-time defeat against Manchester United in the FA Cup the only disappointment in an otherwise faultless breakthrough campaign.
Bradley has not left Manchester. After the game on Sunday he met up with Michael O'Neill's Northern Ireland side as they trained at Manchester City - surely the only Liverpool player allowed to set foot in the backyard of their title rivals! Club football can take a back seat for the time being as he looks to add to his 13 caps.
"It's probably good to have the international break," Bradley told Sky Sports News from the team hotel.
"It was obviously a good game and just unfortunate that we lost. The break has come at a good time.
"All the boys can go their separate ways and hopefully most of us get a couple of wins - apart from Scotland," he joked.
Scotland is the second of an away friendly double-header for Northern Ireland. Bradley will first face Romania in Bucharest on Friday before going directly up against one of his mentors, Andy Robertson, at Hampden Park.
"We're both looking forward to it," he said. "Hopefully it'll be a good battle and I'll get the better of it!
"Andy has been brilliant with me since I came into the Liverpool squad. He's helped me through it and has given me little tips before games that help settle any nerves. I think we'll both do 13 or 14 kilometres," he adds when it's pointed out it could be quite an energetic head-to-head!
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