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[Getty Images] Paul Salt and Mike Hughes discuss Liverpool legends Mark Lawrenson and Sammy Lee as their A-Z of Liverpool players reaches the letter L.
Lee and Lawrenson won a host of honours while with the Reds.
Hughes told Salt: "It was that telescopic outstretched leg with diving in to get the challenge in, where it was almost his signature movement, wasn't it? Signature challenge. And one of the great Liverpool defenders of all time, Mark Lawrenson.
"He was immaculate as a footballer. You mentioned his reading of the game and the understanding that he had with Alan Hansen in particular, his pace, his general pace. Very rarely was he outsmarted on the field. He was just a terrific footballer."
Salt added: "Were it not for the emergence of Virgil van Dijk, I think Hansen and Lawrenson would be my centre-back partnership in any kind of all-time 11."
Sammy Lee played for Liverpool…
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