Steven Gerrard
Steven Gerrard
Steven George Gerrard, MBEis an English professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy as a central midfielder. He spent the majority of his career playing for Premier League club Liverpool, with most of that time as their captain...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth30 May 1980
against age confident experience maybe percent squad
We had a lot of young players. I don't really think we were 100 percent confident going into it that we could go all the way. Everything was against us - the climate, it was a long journey, maybe the age of the squad and the experience in the squad wasn't ready.
again cup lift perform sure
We need to perform again like that and I'm sure we're going to lift the cup if we do.
against badly bunch finish games group ireland northern players run wants winners winning
We slipped up badly against Northern Ireland and this group of players wants to put a run of winning games together. We want to win this group. We are a bunch of winners and want to finish first.
against backs bet dangerous
It's very dangerous to bet against Liverpool, especially when our backs are to the wall,
against emerging good improving results sides top
We are getting increasingly good results against the top sides and emerging as challengers to Chelsea. We feel we are significantly improving in all departments.
against bigger confidence emerging gap goes good reduce results season sides smaller top
We are getting good results against the top sides and not slipping up against the smaller ones. We are emerging as challengers for the title. There is still a big gap to reduce but, as the season goes on and we keep getting the results, our confidence will get bigger and bigger.
again hopefully produce stage thursday wayne
This stage is set for Wayne and hopefully he can produce again on Thursday night.
against credit ground himself involved performance ran
You've got to give him credit for his all-round performance against Croatia, he ran himself into the ground and was involved in two goals,
dominated goals good minutes tonight
We scored two good goals tonight and dominated for 70 minutes but we were all over the place for 20...Unfortunately, we let them back into it.
eight moment move since single
I've been here since I was eight years old and there has never been a single moment when I have wanted to move on and play for someone else,
ability doubt
Fernando's got ability, there's no doubt about it,
doubt european last season team trophy won
There's no doubt we are a better team than we were last season when we won the European Cup, so let's just say that we aren't about to give up our trophy easily.
best blend desire dressing experience gang hungry match people quality room seen stands wants winning
We've got the best blend of youth, experience and quality the club's seen in a while. We have a gang of very hungry players. Everyone wants medals. When you've got that desire in a dressing room, and when the punters in the stands and the people in the boardroom match it, then you've got a winning mixture. I look around the dressing room pre-kick-off now and you can see the will to win in people's eyes.
goals icing near trying
I was trying desperately to set him up near the end because that would have been the icing on the cake. But goals will come for him, because he's brilliant.