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Reds midfielder reveals what Liverpool must do to win the Double

James Milner

James Milner has called on Liverpool to “win seven more matches” in their hunt for glory this season, domestically and in Europe.

The Reds put Porto to the sword in a comprehensive 4-1 win at Estadio do Dragao on Wednesday night.

And with another tough match against relegation-threatened Cardiff at the weekend, Milner knows his side can’t afford to drop any points for what remains of the season.

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“The league is in [City’s] hands and all we can do is try to win our games and put as much pressure on them as possible,” the vice-captain told Liverpoolfc.com.

“I think the maximum number of games we can play now is seven and if we can win all seven then we will have at least one trophy, so I suppose that’s the aim.

“It’s going to be very tough, a lot of games in quick succession and a lot of pressure in each game, and it will take it out of the squad but I think we’ve dealt with it very well up to now at this point.

“We’ve got a good squad of players but also mentally we are very together and just focusing on the next game, so that’s what we need to do now, recover from this because it was a tough shift in the game and there’s a few tired legs in there, so recover and go again.”

On Liverpool’s attacking force, he added: “The beauty with the front three is if one of them has a bad game, the other two are there.

“And the chances that are being created from the boys behind, they are coming from all over and it was a great ball in from Hendo [for Firmino’s header], Trent put a nice pass through for Mo and that’s important.

“When you’ve got these three up front who are clinical and score all types of goals, you need a good supply to them as well.

“We have Virgil popping up with the odd goal or two now as well and probably scoring as many as he should do, so that’s pleasing and something which obviously makes us an even stronger team because if you are playing against us you are going to analyse and try to stop us, so if it’s coming from different avenues it is very difficult to stop.”

Milner was also asked if Barcelona can be defeated in the semi-finals, and he responded emphatically: “Of course, yes.

“It’s going to be very tough, I’ve been there [against them] a couple of times in the knockout stages and not got the right results before, so hopefully third time lucky for me.

“They are a strong team, we know that. They’ve got some fantastic individual players as well and we’ll have to try to stop that and try to play the way we do, but they won’t have played against too many teams who play in the style that we play. So I’m sure it will be a good game and it will be very, very tough.

“They are a very good team but I think the experience we’ve gained in the last few years in the Champions League, last year getting to the final obviously, the Europa League final as well, I think you can see it in this year’s run and the games when it hasn’t been going well for us or tough nights, we’ve got that experience, that calmness about us, we’ve been there before and we know how to get the right result.”

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