The defender was impressive as City won 4-0 at the Etihad on Saturday.
“Every time I see Khusa on the training pitch or in the hall I say ‘fast!’. He’s so fast. But he’s calm as well,” said Lijnders afterwards.
“He defends so smart and it helps if you have a lot of speed in the back. “
“Today the whole last line, all four, the way we dealt with how many players they put on the inside, how they try to make the runs, how we dealt with that and controlled that and still be high.
“They played really good all four. We saw in the first goal kick how there was no solution and he just steps and commits into the midfield.
“He’s making steps and he has to make sure he keeps growing. A young player with lots of potential. There’s a lot of new players that can make that step.”