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Trent Alexander-Arnold<\/a> has vowed not to celebrate if he scores against Liverpool<\/a> on his first return to Anfield since his summer sale. The Liverpudlian and right-back is set to face his former club with Real Madrid<\/a> in the Champions League<\/a> on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Alexander-Arnold, who said he would always love Liverpool, admitted he never expected to be in the away dressing room at Anfield and said he would be careful he did not accidentally go into the home one with his former teammates. <\/p>\n

\u201cI’ll be very focused on which way I go, I don’t want any of those type of clips,\u201d he told Prime Video Sport<\/a>. \u201cThat will be a big difference, going into the away dressing room and warming up on the other side, everything will feel a lot different but it is all part of the game.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"Alexander-ArnoldAlexander-Arnold left Liverpool to join Madrid as a free agent in June (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Alexander-Arnold scored 23 goals in his 354 games for Liverpool and is yet to open his account for Real but said: \u201cIf I was to score I wouldn’t celebrate if I’m honest, no.\u201d <\/p>\n

The former Liverpool vice-captain was booed by some of the club\u2019s fans at Anfield in April\u2019s 2-2 draw with Arsenal after he announced he would leave in the summer, with the Premier League champions eventually receiving an \u00a38.4m transfer fee. <\/p>\n

He is not sure if he will receive a similar reception again but added: \u201cWhichever way I’m received is the decision of the fans. I’ll always love the club, I’ll always be a fan and be thankful for the opportunities and the things we achieved together. It will live with me forever. No matter what, my feelings won’t change towards Liverpool.\u201d <\/p>\n

Alexander-Arnold also revealed he talked to three of his old teammates after Liverpool drew Real, in Mohamed Salah, Ibrahima Konate and Andy Robertson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever way I\u2019m received, is the decision of the fans,\u201d Alexander-Arnold told ahead of his return to Liverpool. \u201cI\u2019ll always love the club, I\u2019ll always be a fan of the club. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll always be thankful for the opportunities and the things we achieved together\u2026 they\u2019ll live with me forever. No matter what, my feeling won\u2019t change towards <\/p>\n

Prime reporter Alex Aljoe interviewed Trent Alexander-Arnold ahead of Liverpool v Real Madrid, streaming exclusively on Prime Video at no additional cost to members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-544693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115481563539515034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544693","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=544693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}