JAMES
MILNER
JAMES MILNER
How do you assess the
season so far?
We know we can improve a
lot. You look at some games
where we've dropped points
and it's pretty disappointing, but
then on the other hand we're in
among the pack trying to chase
the leaders down.
You never know what is going
to happen at the start of the
season with new signings.
Mo has come in and done
amazingly well, but we've had
the odd injury – we missed
Adam Lallana quite a lot as he is
a big player for us.
As a squad we've been
together for a bit longer now so
we'd maybe hope to have a bit
more consistency. Last year we
played really well against the
top sides and maybe struggled
against the so-called lesser
teams. This year we've had two
disappointing results against
two teams challenging higher up
[Man City and Spurs] but been
a bit more ruthless against the
lower teams.
I think it's all there, but we
need to put it all together.
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Liverpool sometimes seem
guilty of taking two steps
forward but then one step
back – is that the case would
you say?
That's the whole Premier
League, to be fair. Apart
from Manchester City, who
obviously have had a great start
and have been scoring last-
minute winners, that's pretty
much the Premier League in a
nutshell.
Spurs were flying not so
long ago but then had a bit
of a difficult time. That's what
everybody loves about English
football – the unpredictability.
You never know what you're
going to get, but maybe in
other football leagues around
the world you see a top-of-
the-league team going 1-0 up
against a bottom-of-the-league
team and it's game over, it ends
three, four, five or six-nil.
In the Premier League in this
country you never know what
is going to happen right until
the last minute of a lot of
football matches and results
can turn around.