“It’s not often when you play for Liverpool Academy sides that you get a chance to play in a semi-final, so it’s a completely different pressure and build-up to the game”, he told the club’s official website. I think this group has a number of players that we’re very proud of and who we think can go to the next level and become first-team players.
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“It was very doom and gloom but we didn’t have a lot of time to dwell on our mistakes at Anfield”, defender Chris Smalling said.
Klopp, looking to win his first trophy since arriving on Merseyside after seeing Liverpool beaten on penalties in the League Cup final by Manchester City, was prepared for a United backlash.
“I am very satisfied about the fans because the results what we have achieved this season are not the results the fans are thinking that we have to fulfil”.
The midfielder returned from two months on the sidelines with a substitute appearance during last weeks first leg defeat at Anfield and the German ace also came off the bench during United’s FA Cup draw with West Ham on Sunday.
Offensive chants were heard during Liverpool’s 2-0 win at Anfield in the first leg of their last-16 tie. We have to go there, roll our sleeves up and be strong, both physically and mentally’. It is not easy for someone who has been out and maybe operated, so it is also a big transition for these kind of players. I tipped him to score last week, and he has now netted eight times in the last 13 games, grabbing a goal in each of his last three appearances.
Nicky Butt: “They have two goals on us, but it’s home advantage and…that magic can happen at any time”. We don’t fulfil the expectations and still they support this team and manager.
“We’ve got two massive games now and, more often than not, we turn up in those big games”.
Ashley Young and Cameron Borthwick-Jackson could be in the team that will be eliminated from the Europa League on Thursday.
“I can not say if he will play (on Thursday) because then I give part of my line-up and I don’t want to do that”, Van Gaal said. Look for Mata to play the ball behind the Liverpool back four and Martial, Rashford and Depay to take the game to Liverpool.
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A story in the Sun newspaper four days after the Hillsborough disaster criticised the behaviour of Liverpool fans at the game.
