The midfielder has heaped the praise on his manager
In a remarkable night at Anfield on Thursday Liverpool’s players defied all odds placed against them, after Marco Reus had knocked in a goal that appeared to end the tie as a contest, before fighting back from 3-1 down on the night to win through to the semi final.
In a similar turn of events to the Champions League final in Istanbul in 2005, the captain for the night praised his manager’s half time team talk, stating that Jurgen Klopp’s words and calmness gave the players the belief that they could turn things around.
Following the game last night (via the Daily Mirror) Milner said: “The manager was brilliant. He was calm. I think it was the perfect atmosphere created at half time to be honest.
“He said we are not playing too badly. It is a long way back but we have nothing to lose. We have lost the first half, but you have nothing to lose, go out and do it.
“He obviously mentioned a certain night in Istanbul and said there have been other great nights in this club’s history from a similar position so go out and see what happens.”
The Reds found themselves up against a seemingly impossible task when drawing Klopp’s old side but that was made so much harder at Anfield when the team found themselves struggling to cope up to half time.
But Klopp rallied his players and sent them out to go for broke and, after a couple more changes to the team, the rest took barely half an hour to unfold.
He continued: “It would have been easy for him to come in effing and blinding but he didn’t,” the skipper – who was a massive inspiration himself – explained.
“He was like ‘let’s go for it. It is going to be difficult.’ And reminded us of a situation where club has come through a similar situation before.
“The drive from everyone, from the fans before we got into the ground, the manager and the staff and the rest of the players; it was great from everyone. But the belief the manager has given us is massive.”
