Despite a smacking on 0-5 against Aston Villa in the League Cup is Liverpool’s Under 23 coach ‘extremely proud’ of the players. It says Neil Critchley after the defeat in the quarter-finals on Tuesday night.
– I am incredibly proud of the achievement. I think that in long periods were well with in the fight. In the beginning we played great, and actually, I think that we were the better team in the first 12-13 minutes, he said to Liverpool FC’s website.
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Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp has taken his entire first team as well as two of the greatest talents in to the WORLD cup, where Liverpool occurs in the semi-final on Wednesday.
Liverpool’s participation in the tournament in Qatar means that Critchley was in charge of the youngest teams in the club’s history at Villa Park on Tuesday night. The starting line-up that included five debutants, had an average age of 19 years and 182 days.
Neil Critchleys young troops got itself an overhaul of Aston Villa. Photo: Paul Ellis/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
The first goal came on a free kick, which the Aston Villas Conor Hourihane after 15 minutes, a little lucky slipped the ball between everything and everyone, and the second fell after 17 minutes, when the Liverpool defender Morgan Boyes hit a post from Ahmed Elmohamady so crooked, that it swept in a high arc over the keeper Caoimhin Kelleher.
– When you suddenly are down 0-2, you start to scratch his head and wonder how we got behind 0-2, says Neil Critchley.
– I don’t think we made very many errors in the fight, he adds.
At the break it was 4-0 to Aston Villa, and in the second half it was the home team, who sat on the chances before Wesley closed to 5-0 in overtime.
– I know that they (Aston Villa-players, red.) controlled the game a bit in the second half – as seniorspillere would do – but we kept the very end, says Neil Critchley to liverpoolfc.com.
Liverpool leads the Premier League with ten points down to Leicester in second place, and Aston Villa is threatened by relegation.
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