> “If you want my honest answer – that’s a difficult one standing next to someone from Manchester United (Wayne Rooney) – for me the difference is the playing style of the teams we face.”
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> “But then probably I get a lot of criticism again!”
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> “You cannot compare a game of football where the other team wants to bring the ball out from the back and you play against a team that’s either themselves in a low block and playing a direct style of football.”
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> “And that’s what we faced many times. In the last two games we’ve faced a different playing style and I think then you saw a similar playing style from us that we saw last season.
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> “But we have to make sure that against any playing style we face, we can win a game. Again, it’s shown the importance of set-pieces because most games we’ve lost we’ve conceded far too much.
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> “If we would have done just as good in the Champions League as in the Premier League – we scored four I think in the Champions League. If we would have done the same in the Premier League, we would have been on much more points than we are now.
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> “But we scored nil in the [Premier League](https://www.thisisanfield.com/liverpool-fc/premier-league) and conceded five. It’s difficult to pick up many points if that is your balance in the league.”