Michail Antonio induced a little bit of a stir in latest days when claiming that West Ham would end above Liverpool this season, and one among his teammates has now responded to that grandiose message.
The Irons attacker instructed The Footballer’s Football Show podcast that he can see his workforce trying down on the Reds within the remaining reckoning, having been lower than impressed with how Jurgen Klopp’s facet carried out at Wolves final weekend.
Forward of at this time’s conflict between the 2 Europa League rivals at Anfield, the Jamaican’s membership colleague Tomas Soucek has implored the 33-year-old to now go and again up his formidable declare.
As per The Mirror, the Czech midfielder stated: “Micky does numerous interviews which might be humorous and we simply snigger about it!
“It’s nice that he has this present however by way of what he’s saying, it’s one thing we have to comply with by means of. If it finally ends up being true I can be very completely happy however he wants to attain many objectives to get us forward of Liverpool.”
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We don’t fault Antonio for ambition and confidence, that’s for positive, however his West Ham teammates and supervisor mightn’t be thanking him for such a publicly daring assertion within the days main as much as their conflict towards Liverpool.
His feedback are positive to have served as added motivation for the Reds to land a direct blow on the east Londoners this afternoon and make the 33-year-old remorse what he stated earlier within the week.
The Irons have loved a powerful begin to the season and defeated Klopp’s facet on the London Stadium a few years in the past, however ending forward of the Merseysiders subsequent Might would require them to both be exceptionally good or for us to fall away significantly.
Antonio might definitely bother us at this time, having scored towards us five times prior to now and netted twice already within the early weeks of the marketing campaign (Transfermarkt), however Liverpool are set to welcome again Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate to their defence within the Premier League after their latest absences.
The Jamaica worldwide has talked the speak. The Reds’ mission at this time is to make sure that he doesn’t handle to stroll the stroll.
