official matchday programme<\/strong><\/a>, he writes: \u201cThis is a fixture which needs no introduction and one we are all really looking forward to.<\/p>\n\u201cWe have enjoyed some fantastic games against Manchester City down the years and I expect another tough battle as we welcome Pep Guardiola\u2019s side to Anfield.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have spoken regularly this season about the need for consistency and I am going to repeat that point here. After good performances and results against both Qarabag and Newcastle United last week, it is important that we follow up with another.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a lot to enjoy in the way we played against Newcastle and I thought the atmosphere you guys created was excellent also. It was a proper Anfield atmosphere, I would say, and we are going to need that again for sure.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe, as players, are the first to admit that there have been times this season when we have not reached the standards required, the standards we expect of ourselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe accept that, and the criticism that naturally comes with it, but I can assure you that we are all working extremely hard to improve every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is still a lot of football to be played this season, and we all want to be as successful as we possibly can. We are all in this together, and here I want to give a special mention to Ibou Konate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds captain is well versed in the sides\u2019 on-pitch rivalry ahead of its latest instalment on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,1051,13,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,12,1042,1047,1043,14,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-748480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-homepage","12":"tag-klopp","13":"tag-lfc","14":"tag-lfc-news","15":"tag-lfctv","16":"tag-lfctv-go","17":"tag-liverpool-fc","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","19":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","20":"tag-liverpool-football-club","21":"tag-mane","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-reds","24":"tag-salah","25":"tag-the-reds","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116029469741868834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748480","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=748480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}