He rectified that at White Hart Lane, setting up the first goal and scoring the second. 10 - or any kind of attacking midfielder - was that he didn’t score or create enough goals. Jordan Henderson has also been a right wing-back and a right-sided midfielder, a left-sided midfielder and an orthodox central midfielder this season and he ended a previous trip to Tottenham at right-back. At White Hart Lane, Brendan Rodgers put his most versatile player there. 10 role tends to be a specialist position. If you come in, you have to do exactly what the five boys who came in against Inter did.The No. “If players lose confidence when they don’t start, that’s a problem. “That’s exactly what a player needs to do. He did not start against Milan but he came in and made the difference.
With over 400 red games under his belt now, Henderson has gained a cult following at Anfield – although his starting place has been less secure recently.Īfter the midfielder’s glorious substitute game against Inter, Klopp said: “I love him to the core. From that moment on, my confidence grew as I went along.” “He showed me the location, where he wanted me to be with and without the ball, and I felt it helped me understand football even better. “I was good at box-to-box, I was very physical and technically reasonable, but the tactical aspects were not really taught me that much. “Brendan helped me a lot tactically,” he said. It proved to be an inspired choice to stay put, with Henderson lifting the Champions League in 2019 and the English Premier League in 2020 as captain – the Reds’ first league title in 30 years.Īnd the England international says that the former manager of Rodgers, who is now at Leicester, has kept his word regarding his development. “It was not really an option for me to go because I had not been with the club for a long time and I had worked very hard to get there. “I actually went back to my room, cried a little and was devastated, really. You’re still young and if you did, you might get more playing time. You are not going to start as much as you would like but I will try to help you improve what you need to improve. “I had a conversation with Brendan at the hotel on the day of the match and to be fair to Brendan he gave me the option, it was rather the club that was ready to let me go. That was just before we played Hearts at Anfield. Henderson said: “I remember it like it was yesterday. In a speech on BT Sport’s Between The Lines, Henderson recalled how he was left in tears when Fulham received an offer for his services in 2012, just one year after moving from Sunderland. Henderson, 31, is in the running to be included tonight – but clearly things could have gone very differently for this influential midfielder. Merseysiders welcome Inter Milan to Anfield tonight in the teams’ second match in the last 16 of the Champions League and protect the 2-0 lead that has been achieved at the San Siro. Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson has revealed that his Red career was almost premature a decade ago during Brendan Rodgers’ tenure.
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