Wednesday, 17th December, 2014
Dietmar Hamann has insisted Liverpool’s league form doesn’t matter in the League Cup quarter-final against Bournemouth and feels the Reds need to take the competition seriously as a trophy would be a huge confidence-booster for the club.
The underperforming Liverpool team will take on the Cherries tonight at Dean Court for a place in the last four of the League Cup.
Liverpool are struggling to recreate last season’s heights in the league this term and have also dropped out of the top half of the Premier League standings.
But the former Red feels the club’s form in the league counts for nothing in a cup competition and winning a trophy would mean a lot for the Anfield-outfit.
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The former German international also believes a good cup run would also show the mettle of the current squad and would be a huge confidence booster for Liverpool this season.
"It doesn't matter where you are in the league and what's happening”, Hamann told the club’s official site.
“If you are in the last eight of a cup competition, it's always a big game, because this club is about winning trophies.
"You have to be in the Champions League, but you need to win a trophy every now and then.
“As a club, a team and players, you learn an awful lot about yourself and your teammates when you play in a quarter-final, semi-final or, hopefully in this case, a final.”
Liverpool have won the League Cup eight times, their last triumph came in 2012.
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