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On the psychological importance of Liverpool scoring a stoppage-time winner after having conceded several earlier this season\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n If I’m correct – but maybe I’m saying something wrong now \u2013 it’s been a while since we conceded in extra-time. So, at this moment of time, when I see the board going up for extra-time, that’s not my first thought. And when I looked at my players, it was definitely not my first thought because I think in that spell, we were getting closer and closer to scoring a goal.<\/p>\n That’s an unbelievable compliment towards these players because we’ve played five games in 15 days with mainly the same players. We had to finish the game without a right full-back and started it without a right full-back. By the way, he did really well (there), Curtis Jones. With our third goalkeeper, with a No.9 that has played there in the past but is usually known as a right winger. And then to show what they showed is a big, big, big compliment to the mentality of this team.<\/p>\n On how significant the momentum gained by going seven points ahead of Chelsea is\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, of course that’s very important because we are, as everyone can understand, focused on qualifying for the Champions League. But I think in the lead up to this game it was not as much about the league table, it’s also about representing Liverpool and four days ago we paid our respect for the enormous tragedy that happened in Hillsborough. But we also use this for the game today because it’s a privilege to represent this club and today they showed what it means to the players to represent this club. And the fans were, as they’ve been throughout the whole season, a big, big, big support for us. And to beat them then in the first game in their new stadium after what I just said, the week we had, is an enormous, compliment to everybody involved in Liverpool FC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the psychological importance of Liverpool scoring a stoppage-time winner after having conceded several earlier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","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\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}