{"id":2721,"date":"2026-05-08T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:34:12","slug":"cody-gakpo-on-need-to-be-better-chelsea-warning-and-50th-lfc-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=2721","title":{"rendered":"Cody Gakpo on need &#8216;to be better&#8217;, Chelsea warning and 50th LFC goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gakpo told Liverpoolfc.com: \u201cThat (Champions League qualification) is the most important (thing) now, to get it over the line. To win our own games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDepending on results of other teams then it could be this weekend. Hopefully we get it done sooner rather than later. It\u2019s the biggest aim at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the whole season then this period where we won three out of four is quite positive \u2013 but I think we\u2019re all aware of the standards that have been set in the past at this club, that it has to be better in general.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea make the trip to Merseyside having been beaten in each of their last six league outings, most recently a 3-1 loss to Nottingham Forest on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>But Gakpo warned Liverpool cannot show any complacency against the Blues, who are now under interim head coach Calum McFarlane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are in a tough place at the moment, but at one point it has to turn around. Hopefully it\u2019s not against us,\u201d said the No.18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also cannot deny that they have a good team, they have great players, so we shouldn\u2019t at all underestimate them for the quality they have, the team they have been and always showed against us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always a tough game. So, we have to be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gakpo told Liverpoolfc.com: \u201cThat (Champions League qualification) is the most important (thing) now, to get<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}