{"id":6691,"date":"2026-06-02T21:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=6691"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:11:42","slug":"liverpools-greatest-no-95-adam-lallana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=6691","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s Greatest &#8211; No.95: Adam Lallana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Years: <\/strong>2014-2020<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Appearances: <\/strong>178<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Goals: <\/strong>22<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Trophies: <\/strong>Champions League (2019), UEFA Super Cup (2019), FIFA Club World Cup (2019), Premier League (2019-20)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adam Lallana was a key early catalyst in Liverpool\u2019s transformation into trophy hunters and winners under <strong>Jurgen Klopp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The England international had been signed by <strong>Brendan Rodgers<\/strong> from Southampton in the summer of 2014 having shone in the Premier League with his silky attacking talents.<\/p>\n<p>A collectively difficult debut season made way for a revolution led by Klopp from October 2015, with Lallana\u2019s insatiable pressing and command of the ball tailor-made for the new manager.<\/p>\n<p>He also caused Klopp\u2019s glasses to break due to celebrations after he scored an incredible stoppage-time winner in the 5-4 humdinger at Norwich City in January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>After near-misses in the League Cup and Europa League that season, Lallana was integral to the Reds securing Champions League qualification in 2016-17, supplying eight goals from 31 league appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Injury misfortunes prevented him from building upon that in the years that followed, though he remained an important member of a squad that went on to achieve greatness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years: 2014-2020 Appearances: 178 Goals: 22 Trophies: Champions League (2019), UEFA Super Cup (2019), FIFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6691","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\/6691","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=6691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}