matchday programme<\/strong><\/a>, head coach Slot writes: “As anyone who reads these notes regularly will know, I always like to include a message to our supporters because you are so vital to everything that we do, but today I have two.<\/p>\n“The first is pretty normal and that is we are going to need you to be at your best in the games we have remaining at Anfield this season.<\/p>\n
“The atmosphere in our last home fixture was very special, especially in the minutes after Diogo Jota scored the decisive goal. That, of course, was in a Merseyside derby and I have been in football long enough to know that a local rivalry will always bring out the very best in fans.<\/p>\n
“The situation we are in with just seven games to go, though, means it would make a big, big difference if we could have a derby-style atmosphere in all of our home matches.<\/p>\n
“Secondly, today we will pay our respects to the men, women and children who died in the Hillsborough disaster ahead of Tuesday’s 36th anniversary.<\/p>\n
“This is a responsibility that everyone at the club takes extremely seriously and, despite still being relatively new to Liverpool FC, l am very much aware of the toll that the tragedy took on our supporters both in terms of the disaster itself and the injustices that followed.<\/p>\n
“We also recognise that there will be many amongst us today who are survivors of Hillsborough or who lost loved ones on that day.<\/p>\n
“Again, I want you to know that we will always stand with you and we will never forget the 97 victims who were unlawfully killed.<\/p>\n
“Not just this week as we commemorate the anniversary, but every single day. This is our duty to you as representatives of Liverpool Football Club.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Premier League leaders host the Hammers in a 2pm BST kick-off and are determined to bounce back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,12,1144,1042,1047,712,1043,16,15,1048,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-18773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool-fc","20":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","22":"tag-liverpool-football-club","23":"tag-mane","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-northern-ireland","26":"tag-reds","27":"tag-salah","28":"tag-scotland","29":"tag-the-reds","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-van-dijk","33":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114335428358708411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}