Xabi responds to critics in style

After returning to his majestic best form, Xabi has spoken of his pride for playing for the club and urged our players to ignore the exaggerated reports in the press and focus on improving:

"You have to be calm. We are a big club and if you have a bad performance then you know you will be criticised.
"It is best to concentrate on improving and not to bother with what is written about you. But we all care. We all feel the disappointment, we all wear the shirt and know what that means.
"That is why we are all committed to the club and trying to do things as well as possible and to climb the table."
He added: "It is my second season here but I really feel the pride of wearing a Liverpool shirt, I am fully committed to the club.
"Always there is something to prove. When situations like this arise you always have to show you are a good team, you understand that people will criticise and you accept it.
"So now after this win everyone is feeling better and we are aiming to win on Tuesday in the Champions League, and that will be two very important victories and will hopefully change peoples' opinion about us."

Our performance yesterday demonstrated that when the players show hunger and desire we are an excellent side. All we need to do now is replicate this in every game to achieve the required consistency.

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