How the national media reacted to Liverpool's dramatic Champions League win over Villarreal at Anfield on Tuesday evening

His name is Rio and he dances down the wing. It was all about teenage sensation Ngumoha as Liverpool continued the 100% start to their Champions League campaign against Villarreal at Anfield on Tuesday evening.

The 18-year-old set up goals for Ronald Araujo and Alexis Mac Allister to help the Reds come from 2-0 down against the Spanish side to eventually win 4-3.

It made for a rather exciting 90 minutes. And while the ECHO was in attendance and provided our usual level of coverage, here's how the national media viewed a rollercoaster evening for Andoni Iraola's side.

Paul Joyce, once of this parish, wrote in The Times about how Ngumoha outshone the expensive substitutes for Liverpool.

"One by one, they stepped off the substitutes’ bench," he pens. "First Florian Wirtz, then Alexander Isak and, finally, Bradley Barcola, three £100m-plus signings that Liverpool had intended to give the evening off.

"Yet centre stage truly belonged to the teenager Rio Ngumoha, who is proving one of the club’s best investments in recent times and whose name echoed around Anfield with the mood having seesawed from one of despair to elation thanks to his work.

"Andoni Iraola gave close friend and former assistant Inigo Perez a 2-0 head start before Villarreal succumbed to the natural order, but this was unmistakably Ngumoha’s night."

Andy Hunter, another former ex-ECHO employee, continued the Ngumoha theme in The Guardian.

"The lasting impression was of Ngumoha seizing responsibility in the absence of big names and driving Liverpool on at the age of 18," he scribes.

"The winger was electric, the difference maker, and from the right-wing role that he is still adapting to. He supplied the cross for Araujo’s all-important leveller and unravelled the Villarreal defence for Mac Allister’s second, Liverpool’s third on a rollercoaster of a night and performance."

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Richard Jolly, writing in The Independent, pointed to the fact Ngumoha wasn't even playing in his preferred position.

"Liverpool’s comeback win against Villarreal had the feel of another night when Ngumoha took a sizeable step forward," he pens. "Although, given the speed at which he surged, his acceleration may have taken him further than that. Sometimes teenage talents have technique before they have the physique but it was notable how much speed and power Ngumoha showed on the burst to set up Mac Allister’s second goal.

"One is the capacity to play on the right. Ngumoha illuminated a Champions League night at Anfield when he was not even operating in his preferred position."

In The Telegraph, Sam Wallace continued the Ngumoha adoration.

"There will be many more Champions League nights for Rio Ngumoha, although the 18-year-old will always remember this career landmark when his teenage skill plunged the opposition into fearful indecision and decided the game," he opines.

"This young man has not yet played 40 senior games but there is no doubting the quality. Alexis Mac Allister scored twice, Liverpool came from two goals behind, and it all ended with a panic that meant they came close to chucking it away again.

"But what everyone could agree on from this strange match of fluctuating fortunes was that Ngumoha looks like one of the best young players in Europe. He is also a bona fide two-sided winger, winning this game for Liverpool from the right wing rather than his conventional left-wing role."

And finally the ECHO's very own tall Paul Gorst looked at the impact of Florian Wirtz from the bench after a week in which many were feeling chatty about the number 10.

"The Germany international enabled Liverpool to knit the play together better in the final third and his left-footed strike from Cody Gakpo's cut-back was just reward," he writes.

"After the disappointment of the defeat to Manchester City, when the £116m playmaker was largely anonymous, it's been a hugely encouraging week for Wirtz, building on his display at LASK last week with more of the same at Brentford and now Villarreal. Two assists and a goal in six days is a fine way to fire back at the critics.

"Iraola was right in his assertion on Monday that the number seven is overly scrutinised and discussed too often but these sort of performances on a more regular basis will only help change that discourse. Wirtz may just be finding his groove under his new head coach."