Is that where your experience comes in and you can help lift the rest of the team as well?
That’s what I mean – it’s a bit individual. Some people can handle it a bit better than others. But we want to have a new opportunity next season, and that’s how we need to see it now.
How difficult was it to recover psychologically and physically after the second leg in Paris in time to play at Anfield, especially after going two goals down?
Yeah, for sure, but obviously because it’s Liverpool and it’s at Anfield, we knew how tough a game that would be before we even started it. With the way they play, they’re really physical, they run a lot, so we knew how it would be. But I think, in general, on the ball, we played well.
We had that spell where they scored two goals within a few minutes, and that changed the feeling of the game. But how we reacted the second half was really good from us. We got an early goal and after that, we dominated the game and we could have won it at the end as well.
How important was that comeback going into next season with the knowledge that we didn’t lose to the champions home or away?
Maybe for the outside it makes a difference, but I don’t think it does for us inside the team. We are already pretty confident of our qualities. Everyone knows that if you lose a lot of players, especially players who normally play a lot for your team, it’s going to be different. But I think we adapted well throughout the season and that shows how football goes as well sometimes.
Also the small margins make a difference. I don’t want to talk about luck, but in one way you need things to go your way as well in certain games. Sometimes you need to force your luck by just keep pushing and pushing and that’s what we are trying to do.
Every year we’re closer and closer, and that’s what we need to do next year. We need to keep pushing and push each other towards that – that’s the only way you can go for silverware.