Gary Neville picks out 'brilliant' Chelsea midfielder for his Premier League goal of the season

Former Manchester United defender and now pundit Gary Neville has picked out Mateo Kovacic's 'brilliant' strike vs Liverpool as his Premier League goal of the season amid stiff Mohamed Salah competition.

Kovacic, 28, netted two Premier League goals in this 2021/22 campaign with his first coming in September in the routine 3-0 win over Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge. The other one though was a rather special one against an opponent that the Blues have suffered cup heartbreak against on two separate occasions this term.

The FA Cup and Carabao Cup went to Jurgen Klopp's side after they defeated Thomas Tuchel's resilient outfit both times via a penalty shootout as their dream of a quadruple lives on going into the dying embers of the season. In the most recent outing on the weekend against the Reds, an unfit Kovacic took to the pitch and put in a rather solid shift in the circumstances he found himself in regarding the injury picked up a couple of days prior in the Leeds United away victory.

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In spite of all the heartbreak the Croatian and his teammates have suffered at Wembley at the hands of Liverpool, they could still have the last laugh still if the quadruple was to fall foul at the final hurdle. In what is a tense title race between Liverpool and Man City which could be settled by goal difference, a certain fixture could be looked back on as where Klopp and co lost the big prize. Back at the start of January 2022, an in-form Liverpool side travelled to Stamford Bridge red hot favourites to pick up the three points in this Premier League encounter which was overshadowed by certain Romelu Lukaku comments which acted as a