Unfortunately, Aston Villa duly dumped him out of the competition in the semifinals, winning at Wembley on April Philippe Coutinho had given Liverpool the lead but goals from Christian Benteke and Fabian Delph -- as well as an eye-catching display from a young Jack Grealish -- broke the Liverpool skipper's heart. This didn't stop the Villa fans from revelling in Gerard's galling disappointment on the day of the final, with supporters gleefully chanting his name as they made their way back to Wembley for the final the following month.
Some even threw him a birthday party for him on the train down to London. However, it wasn't long before Villa got their comeuppance too as Arsenal well and truly obliterated them in the final. Still, Gerrard very much got the better of Villa over the course of his Premier League career. The 12 goals he scored against the West Midlands club were more than against any either team in the division, and included his first league hat trick for Liverpool in March Although he was right footed, he was naturally capable of striking using both his feet.
His aerial dominance was also pretty good making him a fierce opponent no matter which area of the pitch a player contests him. Gerrard was a versatile player and has played a number of positions like secondary striker, box to box midfielder, attacking midfielder and defensive midfielder.
He has also played as a right back and on the flanks in his glittering career. Steven used to play for his hometown place Whiston Juniors, he was marked by Liverpool scouts and joined the Liverpool Academy when he was as young as nine. Steven bagged in thirteen appearances for Liverpool that season. In the season, Gerrard became a consistent starter at Liverpool.
Gerrard had a decent partnership with striker Fernando Torres in , which enabled him to score 21 goals that season and also got nominated for PFA Player of the Year. Steven made appearances for Liverpool in the premier league and over in all competitions.
For a change of things, Gerrard decided to join LA Galaxy in He had 34 appearances with American club and scored on 5 occasions. In September , Gerrard scored his first ever international goal against Germany for the World Cup qualifiers, England went onto destroy Germany with a 5 goals to one.
When Brendan Rodgers decided Leicester City was a more valid career option than seeking to equal, or make, history at Celtic the response was volcanic. Steven Gerrard will be spared such abuse — the Rangers following go weak at the knees within yards of their now former manager — but the swapping of Ibrox for Villa Park and Premier League mediocrity still stings.
Rangers, fresh from years as an on- and off-field laughing stock, adored the kudos bestowed on them by association with Gerrard. That he chose to walk away is a blow to light blue ego. Rodgers, it should be noted, departed Glasgow with seven domestic honours — including two Trebles — and further Champions League experience.
Gerrard has collected one Scottish trophy from a possible nine, with his wider mission as incomplete as it is tricky to evaluate. What he has in common with Rodgers, his former manager, is a debt of gratitude to a club in Glasgow, who did as much to elevate status as was the case in reverse.
Rangers were good for Gerrard by providing an environment not widely available elsewhere. If you can manage the Old Firm, you can manage anywhere, as Dick Advocaat once put it. Gerrard apparently could not care less, a path back to Anfield not being particularly well served by trouncing Ross County or watching players skate around an artificial pitch at Livingston.
Jamie Carragher, overjoyed at the news of Steven Gerrard's transfer U-turn. As an attacking central midfielder. To be honest, I am playing everywhere at the moment - and as I said, I don't mind. I'm just waiting for the call to go in goal now! I suppose I could look at thing selfishly and sulk or I can be a team player and try and do a good job for everyone involved.
It's a great honour to be involved in the starting eleven for Liverpool and England - and that gives me great confidence. Gerrard asked in December what he considers to be his best position. I did not want it out of my sight. When I woke up and someone took it away, I felt I had lost a part of me. Skipper Steven Gerrard on the significance of the Champions League trophy.
His girlfriend wasn't here, so he had the cup in his bed instead. When I saw fans burning an old No 17 shirt by the Shankly Gates, it did my head in. Show some respect. Don't you know how this is tearing me apart? The club aren't stopping them, Liverpool don't want me any more. I stared at the rolling news through flowing tears. I was suffocated by stress. My head was banging.
I was eating paracetamol like Smarties It was the lowest point of my career. I broke down. Panic breakdown, complete mess Could I hand in that Liverpool armband? Could I look the father I adore in the eye again? Could I really put on a Chelsea shirt and face Liverpool in front of the Kop? I could see the great possibilities of Chelsea, but my heart wouldn't let me leave Liverpool. Finally, my mind was made up. At eleven p.
My heart stopped racing and I relaxed. I put the paracetamol away. I awoke on the morning of Wednesday 6 July with a smile on my face for the first time in weeks. Steven Gerrard reveals his anguish as he considered leaving Anfield for Chelsea.
In my opinion he is the most complete midfield player in Europe. If you look at attacking midfield players with Zidane and Ronaldinho and if you look at defensive midfield players like Makelele, creative midfield players with the passing of Beckham. He can do it all. For me he is the most complete midfield player in the world. He can run, he can pass, he can cross and, boy, he can shoot. He's such a clever player, with an instinctive understanding of the game.
When you get to know him, he's bright and humorous and he lives for the game. He's a thoroughly good professional. On the pitch, he provokes chances. He's aggressive, wins the ball, and creates forward movement by working hard and forcing the issue by driving at defenders at speed. He's a hell of a player, one of the best in the world.
So he is a player that I would like to have in my team. It's amazing and the best thing about it, I think, is that it's so different to any other. We will have our own identity stamped all over this stadium and that's how it should be. We are Liverpool Football Club, we expect the best and this will be the best.
I've played in some special stadiums but this is something special and it's so important that we are not seen to be copy off another club. The fact that a massive Kop stand will be incorporated into the new stadium is great. As a supporter myself, I know what to look for in a stadium and I'm sure all our fans are going to love it. We all know the level of noise 40, Liverpudlians can make at Anfield so I can't even begin to describe what 60, plus can do inside the new stadium.
It's going to be unbelievable and I can't wait to lead the team out there. The prospect of this was one of the major factors in me signing a long-term deal with the club and I just hope I'm still around when the day comes for us to play our first game in it. They had a corner and I was standing next to him and I was just singing. He was just looking at me like I was a weirdo. Lifting the Champions League trophy above my head as the captain of my team, it's something that lives with you forever.
People have this image of footballers now, driving flash cars, leading incredible lifestyles, having all that glamour. But there are sacrifices too, big ones through all your young life if you want any chance of making it. Behind the glitz I've had to give a hell of a lot of blood and sweat over the years, some tears as well. When you get that trophy above your head, and you get that feeling in your head, that buzz, that sense of being alive, then it is all worth it, believe me.
God it was incredible. I would watch the likes of Ian Rush and Aldo, then as I got older John Barnes, Jamie Redknapp and Robbie, and hope and pray and dream like mad that it would be me one day.
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