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Georginio Wijnaldum reveals that the Liverpool stars urged each other not to go ‘crazy’ after Aston Villa’s sons cracked down on them in the FA Cup before winning 4-1.
The Reds faced a Villa team made up entirely of academy players after a Covid outbreak forced the entire first team and coaches to isolate themselves.
After Sadio Mane’s opener, Liverpool’s seasoned stars were stunned as 17-year-old Louie Barry ran to coolly level the young debutants at halftime.
After going 1-1 against the teenage team, many of whom had been brought to Villa Park by their parents, Wijnaldum revealed that the Liverpool players had to make sure they didn’t lose their minds in the locker room at halftime.
‘We kept calm and we stayed calm in the dressing room,’ he told the club’s website, ‘We said that we shouldn’t go crazy and that we shouldn’t lose confidence because during the first half hour we did quite well and created chances but not them. we score.
After that, the counter-press wasn’t that good, so I think it was a well-deserved goal from them because we didn’t defend it well.
‘That’s what you get in football, because when the other team doesn’t defend well, especially with their quality, they can create chances and that’s what happened and they scored a goal.
“There are a lot of things that can happen against any team, so that’s what we said at halftime and we just changed a few things.”
Villa’s boys held on to the English champions for an hour, before a quick hat-trick, the first of which from the Dutch midfielder, erased the game.
After surviving the scare, Wijnaldum said Jugen Klopp’s men have their sights set on reaching the FA Cup final, a trophy he has alluded to during the German’s tenure.
“We said at the beginning of the season that we wanted to play for everything.
“Of course it is difficult to play everything with your strongest team because during the season you play many games, especially now, and you have to rotate a lot,” Wijnaldum added.
But I think we did well (against Villa) and I hope we can do well in the next round because this is a competition that we also want to win. We have won a lot, but we haven’t won the FA Cup, so we want to do it. ‘
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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