CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
It promises to be quite the occasion at Anfield this afternoon.
For the very first time, Steven Gerrard is on the opposing team to Liverpool,
he does not want today to be all about him though,
three massive points up for grabs for both sides.
Alisson! Alisson!
CHEERING
Fast start, come on!
♫ Walk on
♫ With hope in your heart
♫ And you'll never walk alone
♫ You'll never walk alone. ♫
♫ Oh, when the Reds!
♫ Go marching in!
♫ Oh, when the Reds go marching in
♫ I wanna be in that number
♫ When the Reds go marching in. ♫
FANS: Ohh!
FANS: Yes!
CHEERING
Ref!
FANS: Ohh!
♫ Steve Gerrard, Gerrard... ♫
FANS: Yes! Yes! Yes!
Robbo, congratulations, a proper win for Liverpool today.
Yeah, proper one, we had to dig deep the last 15, 20 minutes,
once we got the goal they had nothing to lose
and started being a bit more adventurous,
started pushing their full-backs forward and causing us some problems.
We could feel the frustration of the fans, getting on the ref,
I've been a fan and it's the easiest thing to do,
but it was important we stayed calm and let the fans get on top of him,
not let ourselves get frustrated,
because we had a job to do in the second half and I thought we done it really well.
Could have seen the game out a bit better but we're not too picky,
like I said a massive three points for us,
and it keeps the momentum going.
Steve, welcome back. First of all, what's your reflection on the game?
Well, I think box to box Liverpool were a level above,
you can really see why they're competing for league titles
and competing in Europe till the latter stages, if not favourites to go and win it.
I thought we did a good containing job for large periods,
the plan was to take it to the latter stages and throw more ambition and quality at it,
try and make Liverpool nervous,
but the penalty incident was obviously a huge blow to us.
Nice day for the family though, to be here today and see you back.
Some came, some stayed away, because I think they feared the worst,
Liverpool at the moment, with all due respect they're operating at a different level,
we respect that, that's the level we're going to strive to get to,
and be ambitious, but I thought we defended extremely well
and I thought yous got away with a light penalty today.
We'll leave it there, I think. Well done, pal, great to see you.