Liverpool boss Jürgen Klopp has doffed his hat, literally, to Nigerian winger Sheyi Ojo on the heels of his impressive showing for his team in their 4-1 rout of Stoke City at Anfield on Sunday in the Premier League.

The German gaffer made seven changes to his starting XI,handing the England youth-teamer his first ever start in the top-flight and he repaid that faith by setting up the goal scored by Daniel Sturridge in the first half.

“And the same for Ojo. It’s more important than if he would have played a perfect game today and set a level and everybody would be waiting for him to jump over this,” said Klopp to liverpoolfc.com.

“He is a good boy, he has a way to go, no problem. After three, four moments on the right wing, to do what he did on the left [for Sturridge’s goal] with the dribbling and the cross was really brilliant and then Daniel finished perfectly.”

The 18-year-old Ojo has five appearances under his belt for the first team of Liverpool in all competitions this season.

The young star spent the first half of the 2015-2016 campaign at Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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