Fabio Aurelio today insisted no-one at Liverpool is yet ready to give up the ghost on this season’s Champions League dream despite last night’s first leg setback at the hands of Chelsea.
Guus Hiddink’s side ran up a 3-1 lead to take back to Stamford Bridge for next week’s second leg on a night to forget for the Anfield men as a brace of headers from Branislav Ivanovic and a Didier Drogba strike from close range cancelled out Fernando Torres’ opener.
Though willing to concede that Liverpool now have a mountain to climb if they are to make it through to the semi-finals at Chelsea expense, Aurelio vowed that everyone in a red shirt will fight until the end in a bid to keep their European hopes alive.
“We are really disappointed, particularly after the good start we made to the game,” said the Brazilian left back.
“We scored a good goal and we were controlling the game but after they drew level we started to lose control of the game.
“Dirk (Kuyt) had a good chance when he went one on one but unfortunately he was not able to score and I think if that had gone in it might have changed the game.
“But you have to give credit to Chelsea because they played really well, especially in the second half, and they were more effective.
“After going behind we probably became a little bit desperate to score a goal to give ourselves a better chance for the second leg and we started to give the ball away easily and this meant they could use counter attacks which is one of their strengths.
“We know that it will be really difficult for us now because as last night showed we are playing against a really good team but we will not give up.
“We will fight until the very end because this season as shown that there have been many occasions when we have had setbacks but we have managed to turn things around.
“This means that we have to fight until the very end.”
He added: “We know it will be difficult but we want it really badly and we will try everything.”
Guus Hiddink’s side ran up a 3-1 lead to take back to Stamford Bridge for next week’s second leg on a night to forget for the Anfield men as a brace of headers from Branislav Ivanovic and a Didier Drogba strike from close range cancelled out Fernando Torres’ opener.
Though willing to concede that Liverpool now have a mountain to climb if they are to make it through to the semi-finals at Chelsea expense, Aurelio vowed that everyone in a red shirt will fight until the end in a bid to keep their European hopes alive.
“We are really disappointed, particularly after the good start we made to the game,” said the Brazilian left back.
“We scored a good goal and we were controlling the game but after they drew level we started to lose control of the game.
“Dirk (Kuyt) had a good chance when he went one on one but unfortunately he was not able to score and I think if that had gone in it might have changed the game.
“But you have to give credit to Chelsea because they played really well, especially in the second half, and they were more effective.
“After going behind we probably became a little bit desperate to score a goal to give ourselves a better chance for the second leg and we started to give the ball away easily and this meant they could use counter attacks which is one of their strengths.
“We know that it will be really difficult for us now because as last night showed we are playing against a really good team but we will not give up.
“We will fight until the very end because this season as shown that there have been many occasions when we have had setbacks but we have managed to turn things around.
“This means that we have to fight until the very end.”
He added: “We know it will be difficult but we want it really badly and we will try everything.”
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We will win 4-0, yeah!
YNWA
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