WONDERKID HARVEY IS UP FOR BLOCKBUSTER: CITY DON’T SCARE US AND DARWIN WILL PROVE THAT... HE HAS CONFIDENCE TO SHOW HIS REAL QUALITY
HARVEY ELLIOTT has warned Manchester City that their titles will count for nothing when they step out at Anfield.
Liverpool’s young midfield star accepts that Jurgen Klopp’s men are facing one of the toughest tests in football to halt Pep Guardiola’s world, European and Premier League champions in the last topflight not bigging it up too much. We just meeting between the teams take it as another game, not worry under their respective managers. about it too much, we just do what
But even at the tender age of 20, we do best. Elliott refuses to be overawed by “We will play our football, the reputations when he has got the way we play and if we’re thinking Kop’s wall of sound behind him. about them too much then our
Elliott said: “It’s a tough game, we game plan goes out the window.” know that – but I don’t think we Liverpool got themselves in the can big it up more than any other mood for goals with a 5-1 Europa game. We will just It’s our home League victory at focus on ourselves and and the gaffer Sparta Prague on not over analyse or has the fans Thursday that virtually think about it too behind us guaranteed their much. passage into the
“We just need to go out and play quarter-finals. Darwin Nunez the way we play, play our football struck twice to make it 16 for the with Anfield behind us. It’s a season and five in his past four massive help so we just need to go matches – and Elliott believes the out and do our own thing. Uruguayan has finally found the
“It’s a massive game, of course – confidence to deliver on his but we’re a massive club as well and £85million price tag. we just need to be thinking about Elliott said: “Darwin is massive ourselves. for us – and not just for the City
“Two world-class managers match but for any game for going head to head. But, you know, it’s at our home and the gaffer has the fans behind us.
“They are going to be right behind us from the first warm-up and there is no better place to have the final clash. We just need to make sure we’re all there ready. “Look at the players and the squad depth they have, just Man City as a team, they are an unbelievable team. But it is about
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Liverpool. He is a massive player, hence the price tag and why Liverpool brought him in. He is an unbelievable talent and he is only going to get better and better.
“He is showing glimpses of his goalscoring ability and we are all so happy for him. He just needs to keep going, keep the confidence going.
“You know he has always had the skill and the quality, I think just sometimes it was a confidence thing. Now he is showing it.
“Darwin just needs to keep going, keep working hard and we will support him all of the way. We know what he is capable of doing.”