Steven Gerrard: The plan was to get at least three goals

Steven Gerrard says Liverpool "thoroughly deserved" to reach Europa League last eight after 3-0 home win v Lille
Steven Gerrard says Liverpool "thoroughly deserved" to reach Europa League last eight after 3-0 home win v Lille
 
 

Thursday, 18, Mar 2010 10:28

By James Christie.

Steven Gerrard has revealed that Liverpool aimed to score three times tonight in order to prevent the threat of Lille putting them out of the Europa League on the away-goals rule.

Gerrard opened the scoring from the penalty spot as the Reds won 3-0 and 3-1 on aggregate and he said: "We thoroughly deserved to go through."

The England midfielder added: "The aim was to get three goals tonight as we knew Lille were very dangerous."

Referring to manager Rafael Benitez's recent criticism of the team, Gerrard said: "He's allowed to criticise the team, we didn't want to go to extra time as we know how difficult it will be on Sunday [when Liverpool face Manchester United]."

It is a fixture the Liverpool skipper is clearly optimistic about as he insisted: "If you're not looking forward to playing a good team like Man U there's something wrong."

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