Former Manchester City midfielder, Shaun Wright-Phillips, expects his old side to turn their fortunes around.
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00:00It's just getting over that line in terms of getting rid of this defeat and once they get
00:05their first win and get that feeling back and that hunger and that addiction, I think they'll be fine.
00:14I've been lucky enough to have been around the pre-season camps over the last two years to see
00:20the mentality of not only the players but the manager, the coaching staff, even the staff behind
00:26the scene and like you said I think that they've set such high standards for themselves in terms
00:32of what they've achieved over the last four years that anything under that for us there's
00:38there's something really bad going on.
00:43I think he's brilliant. I think things like that are good for the game
00:47personally and it's not him being arrogant and it's not Liverpool fans being a nuisance.
00:53I've played at Anfield and to be fair it's a daunting ground to go to but I've always
00:59had a laugh with the fans in terms of what they say to me. If I was on the bench I'd turn around
01:04and just laugh and they always have a good banter and as soon as he said it back they kind of laughed
01:10and it kind of went away so it shows that they just have mutual respect for each other.
01:16If you look at the games it's not that he hasn't had chances and it's not that in some of them
01:22and or maybe 50% or more of them he hasn't hit he's hit the target but you can't do anything
01:27if the keeper pulls off wonderful saves like against Wolves, Jovi Sarmade, two
01:32unbelievable saves and one of them were against him that's just you have to give credit to say
01:37the other team as well as just be basically like he's not converting his chances. It's
01:42for me in many ways it's been good defending from a lot of teams although that's it indeed
01:46the chances they're giving him ain't always clear-cut chances he's had to fight for them.
01:54The injuries have killed them in many ways you replace Rodri in terms of putting Kovacic in
02:03there but then now he's picked up an injury so they're very light in an area you would say
02:08control games in the midfield and now we're playing in the midfield with pretty much free
02:13attacking midfielders or full-back plays in there or a centre-back and although they're doing good
02:19jobs that's at times especially in possession of the ball having to defend the midfielder or
02:24a whole or a box-to-box midfielder in it is with that tackling desire is completely different.
02:32you