{"id":8316,"date":"2026-06-11T16:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=8316"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:06:13","slug":"liverpools-greatest-no-68-fabinho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=8316","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s Greatest &#8211; No.68: Fabinho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Years: <\/strong>2018-2023<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Appearances: <\/strong>219<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Goals: <\/strong>11<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Trophies: <\/strong>Champions League (2019), UEFA Super Cup (2019), Premier League (2019-20), League Cup (2022), FA Cup (2022)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fabinho was considered the insurance policy of the European-conquering, swashbuckling Liverpool side under <strong>Jurgen Klopp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe always gave us the freedom to play all the fancy stuff,\u201d Klopp said of the Brazilian. \u201cHe was involved in that from time to time as well but loved to be the hoover for the team, loved to do all the dirty work for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An archetypal modern-day No.6, Fabinho\u2019s arrival at the Reds from AS Monaco was a bolt out of the blue and helped supporters quickly move on from the 2018 Champions League final defeat. <\/p>\n<p>After his settling-in period, the Reds\u2019 \u2018lighthouse\u2019 was unleashed.<\/p>\n<p>With Fabinho in the side, Klopp\u2019s men delivered the club its sixth European Cup after an incredible run and a 2-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur in the final. <\/p>\n<p>He then made 28 appearances as the Premier League title was won with 99 points, ending Liverpool\u2019s 30-year wait for the league championship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years: 2018-2023 Appearances: 219 Goals: 11 Trophies: Champions League (2019), UEFA Super Cup (2019), Premier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8316","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\/8316","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=8316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}