Liverpool midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has explained that the Reds’ mindset has been the key to their Premier League dominance so far this season.
Jurgen Klopp’s Merseyside giants are eight points clear at the top of second-placed Leicester City after 14 games, having won 13 and drawn one since the start. Although the football has not been free-flowing at all times, Liverpool is managing to get over the line by pressing and forcing late winners.
The 26-year-old Oxlade-Chamberlain has now admitted that Liverpool’s belief in trying to win games has made everything else easier, as they prepare for the crunch Merseyside derby at Anfield on Wednesday.
While speaking to reporters ahead of the Toffees’ visit across Stanley Park, the Englishman has claimed that Klopp has tried to instill a winning mentality to never say die until the final whistle, “The mindset that I’m in when we go into a game is that I’m going into it with the mindset that we’re going to win. I think that’s how we all feel. We’re going into the games expecting ourselves to win and anything else we’re disappointed
Chamberlain added that this Liverpool team is extremely different from the other teams and matches that he has played but this team is completely relentless due to the belief, “There’s times in my career where I definitely haven’t gone into all games 100 percent confident that the team’s going to come away winning, but with this team, I have that sort of belief in us. If we’re on our A-game that’s how I think we should come out of games. Obviously it might not happen every time but when you’re going into games with that sort of mindset and belief it simplifies everything else.”
Liverpool has gone 15 games unbeaten in all competitions ahead of the feisty encounter against Everton midweek for the Merseyside derby and will look to continue their impressive form.
