Dejan Lovren has warned his Liverpool teammates that this is no time to celebrate their time at the top.
“We maybe have a better schedule than last year,” he told the club’s official website. “We have time to recover and we have quite a big squad. People from the bench came on and got into our rhythm, which is quite important for us. [But] it’s no time to celebrate or anything. We have Newcastle next on Wednesday, so let’s keep this momentum and keep it going game by game.”
“It was a tough game but we showed our quality and our experience,” the Croatia international defender added. “I’m sure if we had played a couple of seasons ago here we would have struggled. We have learned from these previous seasons how to play these difficult games and we did it quite well.
“In some difficult times we kept the ball and sometimes we showed, like the boss said, this matureness and this readiness again when we lose the ball to be there and to stay hungry to the end of the game because we know what we are playing for. It’s the three points and this is all that matters.
“It wasn’t an easy pitch with the rain and everything but again we showed the quality, everyone was believing and everyone was ready from the beginning. It was, trust me, a big three points.”
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