On yourself, did you know you were coming up to 50 goals for Liverpool? How much would that have a nice meaning for you?
I need two more, yes! It’s always nice to reach certain amounts and I think 50 goals is an amount that counts in some way, so yeah, that would be nice.
And on the season overall, how have you found it? It has not been an easy one for anybody. How have you found it for you?
No, exactly. Those are the right words. It’s not an easy season for the team. We were too inconsistent at times; to play one good game and then the level dropped significantly the next game. But I think the last few weeks were better performance-wise and result-wise, if you exclude the last game as a performance. I hope we can keep this momentum that we have a little bit with keeping clean sheets and winning the games – and to also perform better – to end the season in a good flow and then at the end of the season we can really assess how everything went.
As it stands now I think everybody will agree with me that it’s not the place where we would put ourselves at the beginning of the season, if you look at last season where we won the league and we were, in my opinion, very consistent in doing all the things on the pitch, also result-wise but also how we performed as a team, as an individual, as a unit. But unfortunately that’s also sometimes part of football that this happens. I think we are now in a better place than we were before and, like I said, we have to keep on building and stay together.
We’re back at home on Saturday against West Ham. Is the idea of making Anfield more powerful and being strong at home something that you and the rest of the squad are conscious of, building up that home form?
Yeah, it’s always very important to have a very strong home front. It was for so many years, it was very difficult to come to Anfield and even take a point. I experienced that when I first came, we didn’t lose that much games at home as we did this season, but it’s up to us as a team to build that confidence again for the stadium and also that teams that come there don’t have the confidence they have. We just have to start winning all the games again at Anfield.
You’ve touched on it a couple of times in terms of what could still be done this season. What would you love to achieve in these last few months of the season?
We’re still in the Champions League and in the FA Cup, so if you speak about winning things, if we could win the Champions League and the FA Cup and reach top four, I don’t want to say it would be a better season than last season, but then it would be an amazing season as well.
