Alexis Mac Allister has highlighted a key factor Liverpool’s leaders do as a way to preserve the workforce pushing till the very finish.
Darwin Nunez‘s late winner in opposition to Nott’m Forest was Liverpool’s 18th injury-time winner within the Premier League with Jurgen Klopp in cost – that’s greater than some other workforce within the division throughout that interval, say Opta.
The widespread denominator right here is Klopp, however the German can’t be on the pitch and all over the place unexpectedly. One of many components that has contributed to Liverpool’s success has been his skill to pick leaders.
It’s now these leaders who’re pushing Liverpool on to a number of late profitable targets. Mac Allister, who signed final summer time, has described one key means the leaders do that.
After the match, he informed BBC Sport: “We had been at all times constructive. Our leaders had been protecting the workforce very constructive. We’re a great group, good gamers on and off the pitch.”
Chatting with Liverpoolfc.com, he later added: “You may see Virgil [van Dijk] and our leaders at all times protecting the workforce very constructive, and that’s crucial to maintain going till the tip.
“We’re an excellent workforce, an excellent group with good gamers on and off the pitch. That’s actually essential to be at all times constructive.”
Mac Allister’s feedback underline the psychological energy Klopp has instilled within the gamers, and in addition highlights how the ‘doubters to believers’ phrase applies not solely to followers, however gamers additionally.
The supervisor’s participant management group has undergone a number of modifications since he arrived.
With Jordan Henderson, James Milner and others now having moved on, the mantle has fallen on to the likes of Van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Mo Salah to take care of the profitable mentality.
It’s that strength of will that has seen Liverpool come via the final couple of weeks with 4 wins from 4 matches.
The never-say-die tradition can be clearly evident all through the membership, with the children who’ve made first-team appearances carrying the identical perspective because the seasoned professionals.
Liverpool’s No. 9, Nunez, didn’t come via the Reds’ academy, however his purpose on the weekend was the epitome of by no means giving up.
It’s fascinating that, in his house nation of Uruguay, profitable on the demise is described as ‘a lo Penarol’ or ‘on the Penarol’ in English.
Penarol is the identify of the primary skilled membership Nunez performed for, a workforce who turned identified for his or her dramatic winners, therefore the saying.
Nunez has had this never-say-die perception instilled from an early age, and it’s one thing Liverpool supporters love about him.
As one Uruguayan Crimson mentioned: “Darwin, Penarol and Liverpool, a match made in heaven.”
Maybe ‘Darwin Nunez‘s winner on the Liverpool’ would have been a greater option to begin this piece. Then once more, it doesn’t fairly have the ring of ‘a lo Penarol’.
