Rousing the Kop

Andy Robertson admits he once had a mentality concern about Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool which never came true

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As he prepares to leave Liverpool, Andy Robertson has been looking back on some of the defining moments of his time at Anfield. Klopp’s side lost just one Premier League game, finished on 97 points and still missed out on the title to Manchester City.For a team that had already lost the Champions League final to Real Madrid the previous year, it would have been easy for doubts to creep in.



I would have really worried for us that season if we didn’t win the Champions League.“Like in terms of, you know, mentally because the season before we got beat in the Champions League final against Real Madrid, realistically, we weren’t ready for that final. But the fact that we had the Champions League final to then, you know, kind of bounce back on after the disappointment of the last game of the season, I think it was full focus on the Champions League.“We were that determined to go and win that Champions League because we knew that could be the start of our success.”Had Liverpool ended that campaign trophyless, Robertson clearly feels it could have damaged the belief Klopp was building.

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