Milner hopes to win League Cup

Defeat at Anfield may have not done much for Swansea’s poor run of results which now extends to one win since the end of August but the performance encouraged under-pressure manager Garry Monk, who rejected accusations the players were not delivering for him.

“I think we have a talented squad; we have a great mix of youth and experience and obviously a new manager, the stadium is being upgraded as well so I think it is a great time to be involved at the club”, said Milner. You can’t ignore the next game.

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“I think their new manager brought a lot of energy, a lot of spirit to the team”.

Both were making their first appearance since the German’s appointment but neither will make the starting line up at St Mary’s.

“I would like to feel better and say “Three days off celebrating a good week” but we don’t have time for this”.

With Christian Benteke. Firminho and Milner all playing well Liverpool look like a team that can compete for the Champions League places.

“Daniel did what we had spoken about before”. Everyone could see his quality. Only Southampton. They’re pretty hot on this game, they’ve lost their last two games and they want to strike about. “We have to wait”.

“To go to a final would be interesting”.

But Shane Long, Southampton’s goalscorer on Saturday, feels the hosts have the strength in depth to exceed last season’s quarter-final effort, when a surprise loss to Sheffield United halted their progress.

“I’m excited. But you have to respect the situation, ours and Southampton”.

“(Liverpool) have the fast transition when they get the ball.

The most recent League Cup fixture between the two clubs was back in November 2002 at Anfield, where the hosts clinched a 3-1 victory thanks to strikes from Patrik Berger, El Hadji Diouf and Milan Baros. I heard as well that there was one – these sort of things are always written at the time but, no it’s not true.

“I can not make decisions in this moment because we have another training [session] today”. One of the meetings we had with the team at the start of the season was about improving, being better than a year ago. Tadic is hard to play against.

“There are so many games over Christmas”.