Liverpool would have gladly exchanged early exits from all cup competitions to win the coveted EPL title if it was offered as a choice at the beginning of the season, Glen Johnson has said.
Glen revealed that he does not feel any true fan will lose sleep over their recent exits in cup competition because they are about to win what they have always waited for.
According to him, it is still not a bad season even if their recent losses have been very strange and unexpected.
He added that the exit was the fault of the Reds because Atletico came to Anfield with a clear game plan and it worked excellently.
His words, “What has surprised me is the manner they’ve lost a certain amount of games in recent weeks, for how good they were and are.
“But let’s not forget that in pre-season, if they had a board meeting and a chat to say we’re going to get knocked out of all the cups but win the Premier League, every single one of them would have voted for that.
“They would have all accepted it, so it’s not a bad season at all. It’s just surprising when you look at, if you hadn’t seen a game of football all year and look at their last five or six fixtures, that’s the surprising chapter in their season.”
“The first goal is a terrible error from the keeper [Adrian] and it is what it is, but the defending afterwards was terrible. It was on the other two goals as well.
“It’s like they’ve thought ‘we’ll let them shoot because they aren’t going to score anyway’. That was the surprising bit.
“They [Atletico] have gone there with a game plan, scored three goals and people are saying they are super-defensive. If that’s defensive…”
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