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Liverpool’s Dominant Display Continues as Tsimikas Highlights Team’s Focus on Hard Work and Teamwork
Liverpool’s Kostas Tsimikas has hailed the team’s spirit and commitment as key factors behind their impressive start to the season, which saw them secure a 1-0 Champions League victory over RB Leipzig on Wednesday.
Darwin Nunez’s solitary goal in the 27th minute proved to be the decisive factor as Liverpool made history by becoming the first Reds side to win their opening six away games of a season, and the first to claim 11 victories from their opening 12 fixtures. The win also sees the team sit top of the Premier League ahead of their upcoming trip to Arsenal, with whom they are among only two teams to have taken maximum points from their opening three Champions League games.
“We’re delighted, of course,” Tsimikas said. “Everyone defends, everyone attacks, and everyone wants to do even more. We’re hungry for more. Even for every game now, it is very tough for us, but the team has to show and stick with the plan to be 100 per cent focused every time and to give our best.”
Liverpool face their sterner test to date on Sunday when they travel to face title hopefuls Arsenal, who inflicted a 3-1 defeat on the Reds at the Emirates Stadium last February. However, Tsimikas is taking a long-term view, focusing on the importance of each individual game rather than placing too much emphasis on the bigger picture.
“I think we’ll go to Arsenal to play our football and to win the game,” he said. “That is our target, but we just take it game by game, to try and win and play good football. I think that is the important thing right now.”
The Greek international also reflected on the lessons learned from last season, which saw Liverpool’s quadruple hopes fade despite a Carabao Cup triumph. “Last season, at the end, we destroyed everything after one bad result against Manchester United,” Tsimikas recalled. “I think the next fixtures back in the days we were not the team we were before, but I think we have tried to work game by game and every game is a final. We try to do what the manager is asking to win games.”
With Liverpool’s resolute defense a cornerstone of their early success, Tsimikas underlined the importance of collective effort. “I think we defend all together,” he said. “One of the goals of the new manager is he asks us to defend all together as a unit, as a team. So, I think that is the important thing. We don’t want to concede. Every game we all defend together and that is what we want to see.”
