Alisson Becker on criticism and recovering from injury:
“There are still questions, but that doesn’t worry me. I’m aware that I’m on the right path. Sometimes, on the pitch, things don’t go as we’d like. Maybe, if we had won more, the perception would be different. What bothers me most is not having won. There’s always that feeling that I could have done something differently. I’m 100% fit, and being out of games at Liverpool was to prepare for the World Cup.”
[via @Estadao with full quote that wasn’t mentioned in Sport Witness’s article]
Andoni Iraola on Anfield:
“I’ve been the other side – I still remember the goal [Federico] Chiesa scored at the end of the first game of the season!
“We were there with 2-2 thinking that probably we could take something. He scored and the place erupted. It was crazy, no? I want now to feel this from the other side.
“At the beginning when you arrive at any club, I think you need to kind of prove a little bit yourself. You need to earn the right also to belong. I want to do this as quickly as possible so I can also celebrate with them and I can be part properly of those celebrations.
“For me, football is about emotions. About passion.
“I’m quite cool-headed probably, during my life quite rational, I would say. But it’s true that when the game starts, when you have to celebrate a goal, something is inside, no?
“I think this inner energy, you need it as a player, you need it as a supporter, you need it as a coach. No better place than Anfield.”