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born match-winner. They’re
a top, top side with so much
to play for, so let’s worry
about trying the best we can
to get the three points today
rather than anything else.
The other stuff looks after
itself if you do your job in
each game. That’s us and
we won’t change.Was there a particular moment in the season when
you thought to yourself: we can do this, when you
knew it was 'on'...?
Not really. There were a lot of close games. People look
back to November and the games there, but even before
there were so many games we won by a single goal and
with late goals. A lot of people talk about Villa away and
that suits me because that means my headed goal gets
shown a lot – and I don’t get bored of talking about that!
But you can point to so many. Milly’s penalty against
Leicester at home; Adam Lallana’s equaliser at United;
Man City at home after the Villa game; and games like
Leicester, Sheffield United, Wolves after we came back
from Qatar.
You know what, I could just reel off the entire fixture list.
The Premier League is so tough and Man City are the
most unbelievably difficult side to get ahead of and stay
ahead of, it means every kick of every game mattered this
season.
So if there’s a fans vote I’ll get all my family and mates to
vote for my header at Villa, but in truth I couldn’t pick one
game, one win or one goal. It’s been an effort all season.
How important is it to try to win your remaining
games to set some new Premier League records
and finish the season in style?
If you’ve listened to us before and after games all season,
you’ll know it’s not our style to get sucked into statements
or predictions – it’s about the next game only. Today that’s
Aston Villa and it’s going to be hard enough to win this
match, never mind looking at others. I get that it sounds
boring – us saying one game at a time – but that’s us as a
squad, that’s our approach. Why would we change it?
Like I say, we have enough to worry about trying to get
something against Aston Villa. Just look at the quality in
their ranks, including my Scotland team-mate ‘Super’ John
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