Liverpool’s Lallana enjoying ‘telepathic’ relationship with Firmino, Coutinho and Mane

Adam Lallana is happy for he and his teammates to continue to let their feet doing the talking, insisting Liverpool’s current in-form attack have developed a telepathic understanding of each other.

The Reds have been at their free-scoring best of late, with last weekend’s 6-1 demolition of Watford seeing them sit top of the table after 11 games.

The chief instigators behind that run to the summit have been the Brazilian-Senegalese combination of Roberto Firmino, Philippe Coutinho and Sadio Mane who have managed 16 Premier League goals between them.

All three were on the scoresheet against the Hornets, including a double for Senegal international and summer signing Mane.

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And Lallana – who has also been joining in the fun with three goals and five assists – believes the different languages spoken by the players at the club has not been a limiting factor at all this season, with the players’ individual talents shining through.

“It’s clichéd, but football has its own language,” he said.

“For example, Firmino doesn’t speak brilliant English – although better English than I speak Portuguese! – but I feel like I’ve got that relationship with him on the pitch where you don’t need to be speaking to each other.

“It’s almost telepathic. At times, when you see Firmino, Coutinho and Sadio Mane linking up, they are everywhere. That’s not because they speak the same language or they speak English.

“Phil is very shy, his English is great. He just doesn’t speak it too often.

“It’s almost telepathic – just knowing each other’s games inside out.”