It's an achievement even Trent Alexander-Arnold is struggling to comprehend.

"It's just a dream, you never think you will play 100 times for Liverpool," Alexander-Arnold tells the ECHO in an exclusive chat. "I always thought, growing up, that I would hopefully play one or two games, but never near 100, especially at such a young age.
"You never think it is going to happen like this and you don't think it will go so quick as well. Thinking back, I can't remember all of the games, but it has been a fast three years I suppose, it has gone around so quick.
"The aim was to play as many games as possible for this club and try and get as close as I can to those types of numbers [of Carragher and Gerrard]. I am still so far away from that but it is great to have so many games in my career so early on.
"Hopefully there are a lot more games to come. It is obviously important for me to think that I am there around the same numbers as Gerrard and Carragher were, because I grew up wanting to be them, so for me to hear stuff like that is a proud thing."

"I'd probably say the first Champions League final is when I started to think like a senior," he adds in an engaging chat. "I thought after that there would be no going back to the Academy now.
"It was always in the back of my mind and I'd seen it before where players had played a few games and stopped playing in the first team and gone back to the U23s again.
"I never wanted to do that, I always wanted to play for Liverpool at the highest level in these types of games and the first Champions League final is probably when it clicked that this is just the beginning.
"I thought if I keep working hard I can reach these kinds of things and this is where I want to be."

"None of the lads ever felt any pressure going into that game or expectations," he recalls of the meeting with Real Madrid. "We were really pleased to be there and we were going to fight to win it, but after the game, it was more the feeling of 'let's use this to get back here again'.
"We knew we could be better and we didn't want to dwell on the disappointment too much. As a whole football club, including the fans, we all thought maybe this is what we needed to get better.
"If we won that game, maybe we wouldn't be as good as we are now. We learned our lesson and we used it in many games, to win them, or maybe grab late equalisers. We have really learned how to manage a game."

He says: "It is mad to think two of those [99] games have been Champions League finals.
"It is crazy to think about but it is a testament to where the club is at the minute that in the space of three years we have gone from not having Champions League football to being in back-to-back finals.
"It is something that shouldn't be taken for granted and we shouldn't turn our backs on that. To be able to help the club is a fantastic achievement and for the team to get there is something I am really proud of.
"Hopefully we will get there a few more times in the next few seasons."
