Re: Liverpool Thread
All that has been said before, all we hear every week from Rafa and the players is that it's all not over. I'd rather players were realistic, knowing that our qualification is out of our hands now.
Carragher isn't saying it "doesn't matter" if we go out, he said it's not the end of Liverpool. And it isn't.
If we go out, fine. We deserve to go out anyway with how we've played and I'm not bothered about winning the Europa League so I won't get much joy if we do go on to win that, it's the CL or nothing for me now.
If qualification was in our own hands, I'd then expect the players and manager to try motivating everyone. But that isn't the case and we're relying on Lyon now. Even if we win both of our games, it won't matter if Fiorentina win tonight.
And I'm pretty sure that Rafa/Carragher/Gerrard are motivating each other at training and in the dressing room later this evening. I don't think Rafa is exactly sitting there at training telling everyone to forget about the CL and take it easy.
Read the rest of the interview:
"The results of the other game is important to us but it's only important at the end of our game," added Carragher
"It doesn't make a difference what's going on through the game, we don't need to know. We just need to know we have to win our game and, at the end of the game, get the result.
"We always believe at this club that we can do special things. We have done it in the past and we know we can do it again."
I'm hoping to see Aquilani tonight. If he can't get some involvement (if not a start) against Debrecen then something is wrong.
