Liverpool will get their Champions League campaign back underway on Tuesday evening in Lisbon. Estádio da Luz is a great stadium. I loved the old stadium but this new one is beautiful. One of the best things I’ve ever seen is when the eagle flies around it at the beginning of the game. It’s absolutely magnificent, the way they do it.
It will be tough. Ajax went there and got what looked like a favourable draw, but Benfica beat them. When you get to the last eight of the Champions League it’s never going to be easy. The atmosphere will be great. The place will thrive on it. But Liverpool just need to try and get a draw or even a win to bring it back to Anfield and make it more comfortable. We’re well capable of doing that. I’ve said already that we’re not playing particularly well but we’re grinding results out.
I’d be a liar if I didn’t say that the draw was the one that we wanted, we didn’t want another English team, but you’ve got to make it pay. If you wait for it the happen you’ll lose, or you might get a draw. You’ve got to go and make it happen. Play in the way that they did in Milan and have done in the past, and they’ll make it happen. Give the travelling fans a good tie over there.
