If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.

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I tried to do everything just as I would before any other match, but it was impossible.

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You need to have the same ideas to work as a team, to have a good team spirit. And you don't get there in a day or even a month. It takes some time to get there.

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I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.

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Managing Liverpool? Yes, for sure, I have dreamt of that, but first I have to prove myself and prepare.

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Leaving Liverpool was the toughest decision I had to make in football because I was in an exemplary club, a proper football club, with a lovely and sharing stadium that meant a lot of things to me. The fans are the best in the world, no doubt about that, and I was comfortable there.

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I don't think tackling is a quality. It is a recurso, something you have to resort to, not a characteristic of your game.

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We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.

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I am still a Liverpool fan and will be forever, absolutely

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If you win the midfield, you probably win the game. But that doesn't mean the players in the midfield are the ones alone who determine that, because now we have strikers who drop into midfield and defenders who move up into the midfield. It is the area you must dominate.

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