Liverpool defender was in Homebase the day after last season’s Champions League final. He hopes to be celebrating this time
Kiev is boxed off and parked in the past for Andy Robertson, whose shuddering return to earth after last season’s Champions League final included buying a barbecue in Homebase the following day, but the brutal lesson in what it takes to win European football’s greatest prize has not been forgotten. That much is clear in his blunt dismissal of the theory that Liverpool’s season of 97 Premier League points and the greatest comeback in Anfield’s European history deserves a crowning glory.
“I’ve heard a few people say that but, for me, we don’t deserve anything yet,” says the Scotland captain. “The Premier League shows that. A lot of people would say 97 points deserves the Premier League but it didn’t because Manchester City got 98. They were that little bit better than us in the end. We deserve nothing, only what we put into the game and what we get out. If we have 100% effort and have a good game, play to our best, then we’ll deserve it. But we aren’t going into the game thinking we deserve it because we’ve had a good season and got 97 points. Never. That’d be stupid of us.”
Written by Andy Hunter in Madrid
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/30/andy-robertson-liverpool-champions-league-final-tottenham under the title “Andy Robertson: ‘We don’t deserve anything yet. The league shows that’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
