Steve Nicol
Steve Nicol
Stephen "Steve" Nicolis a Scottish former professional footballer. He attended Marr College in Troon and developed into a utility player, who played for the successful Liverpool teams of the 1980s. He was also a regular member of the Scotland national football team and represented his country at the 1986 FIFA World Cup...
exactly hat party seen
I've seen him better. He didn't exactly have his party hat on.
behind exactly given good national team time training
(The national team players) are exactly where we thought they would be. They've had good training time behind them, and have given everyone else a boost.
board certainly exactly gave hope looked realize shake taken though
I certainly hope it gave him a shake and made him realize what's important. He's come back and he's looked as though that's exactly what he's done. He's taken it on board for what it was and he's back to what he was.
biggest clint direction exactly gets goes hard likes plays point tools trains trying
The first thing with Clint is that he likes to play the game. He trains exactly how he plays and goes hard every day, so on Saturdays he gets the benefit. He's always trying new things, new tricks. The biggest thing is to try and point him in the right direction about when and when not to use the tools he has.
chances cost hit legs net second side strongest tie win
We had the chances to win the tie over the two games. In particular, we should have hit the net in Bermuda and that is what cost us in the second leg. Over the two legs I think we showed we were better than them without having our strongest side out there.
achieve game giving good happen passing people players result running shape start stay talking tie worst
The worst thing that can happen is for us to be out of the tie by the end of the first game. We need to get the result we are out to achieve and so we need to start by giving nothing away and then working our way into the game and getting forward. We want to keep as good a shape as we can at all times so we have to be talking and passing people on. We don't want players running all over the place, we want to stay with men. If we do that we'll be all right.
box coming easy fairly far game
Well we can't play 3-5-2 all the time. It is far too much for the two-way players. We have to get box to box which is not easy to do coming off a game down in Dallas. It was fairly straightforward. There wasn't much that we had to think about.
ball good improve keeping physically three weeks work
We need to work on keeping the ball more. Physically we are in good shape, and three more weeks will only improve that further.
penalties penalty whatever
We aren't getting penalties for whatever reason. I thought it was a penalty myself.
behind bodies expect exploit holes hope leave road wants
I don't expect anything else. The way they play, they are flinging bodies forward. When you do that, you leave holes behind you, and we hope to exploit that. Everyone wants to go on the road and win, but we wouldn't be too disappointed with a draw, either.
relax stinks
It stinks to go on the road. Hopefully, we'll be able to relax and play.
carried certain obviously pleased
It's not the worst, it's not the best. We're pleased with a lot of things we've done, but there are obviously certain things we're not carried away with.
beat carried early obviously pleased points shown teams though
It's not the worst, it's not the best. We're pleased with a lot of things we have done, there are obviously things we are not particularly carried away with, but it's early on. We feel as though we have shown teams already that, if they are going to beat us or take points of us, they're going to have to be at their best. We know where we are and where we have to improve.
bad behind games goal move
It was a bad goal on Matt's part. But for 26 games he's been outstanding. We'll put this behind us and move on.