On Darwin Nunez’s absence…
He went in yesterday [from training] as a result of he did not really feel nicely. So, he went in and that is why he could not be within the workforce immediately.
On securing Champions League qualification yesterday…
I feel it’s the major intention for the membership as a result of they’ve skilled two years in the past how a lot of an affect it’s in case you are not part of the Champions League. So, sure certainly. The principle intention in what they advised me is take a look at the gamers, give your opinion about it so we will go into this mission within the second and the third 12 months, however do qualify for the Champions League. Everyone knows that even the workforce who’s in sixteenth in the intervening time has superb gamers, however the high eight all have unimaginable gamers.
So, it is getting increasingly tough to qualify for the Champions League. To be trustworthy, for those who would have requested this query to me to start with of the season, I might have mentioned, ‘Oh, good.’ However yesterday it wasn’t that I opened a bottle of wine as a result of we certified for the Champions League. We now have now, in fact, a much bigger intention than solely qualifying for the Champions League.
On his celebrations with supporters following the full-time whistle…
I feel as a result of we gained a recreation of soccer the place, perhaps for the primary time this season, you might debate if we deserved to win this recreation. Then to win it at such an enormous second, the place the followers helped us, I feel that deserved [it] and that is why I attempted to indicate a bit extra how a lot I respect them – by means of the entire season, however undoubtedly immediately.
On the prospect of probably successful the Premier League title at Anfield…
If I’ve to win it 15 kilometres from right here… I do not care the place to win it. We all know we nonetheless need to win two extra video games, which I’ve tried to come back again to each single time: it has been on 32 events tough sufficient for us. First win two and that is the one factor we should always concentrate on and this week we should always attempt to enhance, enhance, enhance increasingly to provide ourselves a greater likelihood of successful a recreation of soccer subsequent week.
We face Leicester and all people can discuss, discuss, discuss however what I noticed is that for the primary time in 11 video games they scored two objectives and obtained a end result, so that they in all probability have a bit extra confidence going into the sport now. We have proven within the final 32 video games that there have solely been two or three wins that had been fairly snug, however the remainder of them had been very, very, very arduous work and that is our solely focus, that is my solely focus: successful a recreation of soccer.
