Midfielder Fabinho believes Liverpool must reinvent the spirit of their well-known Champions League semi-final win over Barcelona to have any likelihood of progressing in opposition to Real Madrid.
In 2019, on their approach to successful the competitors, they overcame a 3-0 first-leg semi-final deficit to win 4-0 at Anfield.
The circumstances, nevertheless, are significantly totally different on this event as though Liverpool nonetheless want three targets, having misplaced the primary leg 5-2, they must do it within the Bernabeu, the place Real have solely as soon as failed to attain of their final 66 European matches.
Fabinho, a former Madrid B group participant who made one first-team substitute look in 2013, is effectively conscious his outdated membership are swift to “smell blood” as they demonstrated at Anfield, the place they bounced again from 2-0 down.
However, he holds out hope the remaining members of that semi-final win over Barcelona, of whom six are more likely to begin on Wednesday, can discover some inspiration.
“I think it is important to have this mindset for a game like this because we have nothing to lose,” stated the 29-year-old. “Everyone expects Real Madrid to win the game and go to the quarter-final so this game will be good for us because we go with the responsibility to win in the Liverpool shirt and try to play our best football.
“This group, some of the players have a real nice experience of the Barcelona game when we were 3-0 down and we changed in the second game. It will be a little bit different because we will not play at Anfield so we have to be really motivated to play this game.
“Real Madrid smell the blood and if they have an opportunity they hurt you and if they get an opportunity they will score again.
“We learned many things (from the first leg) and we will try to be less exposed but there will be moments when we are exposed, especially if we have to score three or four goals.
“But these are things you have to try to react on the spot. I think we need to be cool-headed and it is important not to be desperate from the beginning.
“We need to score but the most important thing is not to concede any more goals so if we get nil by the end of the first half that would be a good result because after that anything can happen.”
