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Liverpool news: Andy Robertson sends message to Arsenal and Man City ahead of crunch week
LIVERPOOL star Andy Robertson believes facing Arsenal and Manchester City in the next week could define the season for the Reds.
Jurgen Klopp’s side lead Tottenham in the Premier League table by six points as they look for a title win.
And Robertson believes their results against Arsenal and City this week could be crucial.
But the Liverpool defender insists the primary focus will be the Gunners who visit Anfield later today (5.30pm).
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He told the club’s website: “It’s a huge week, and you very rarely get quiet weeks in the Premier League - it is what it is and every game’s massive and the next one’s always the biggest one, [and that’s] against Arsenal.
We won’t even be thinking about the Man City game
“We won’t even be thinking about the Man City game because we can’t take the eye off the ball and we’ll never do that, but it’s two massive games, of course it is.
“After them we could be sitting a lot nicer or we could be sitting a lot closer to the pack.
“That’s the beauty of the Premier League, but we hope to get the points against Arsenal and then we can think about City and the rest of the games.
“But our full focus is on tomorrow and hopefully under the lights at Anfield the fans can get behind us and we can put in another good performance.”
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Robertson also believes Liverpool reaching the halfway stage of the Premier League season unbeaten is a big achievement for the Reds.
He explained: “It’s a great achievement but if you look back on it in years to come and it means nothing then it’s pointless.
“For all the records we broke and points that we gained, it’s pointless if we don’t make the most of it.
“So we look to have another successful season on top of the last one and whether that’s winning the league or whatever then we’ll soon see.
“It’s a fantastic points total just now, but it means nothing halfway through the season. We’d much rather have the right number of points at the end that [means] we are crowned champions, but we can’t focus too much on that.
“So far, so good: we’ve gone through a whole round of fixtures unbeaten and it’s easy to say that if we do that again then we’ll win the league.
“But it’s not as easy as that and we know there’ll be a lot of tough games to come, but hopefully we’ve got the squad to deal with that and the character to deal with it and like I said, we’ll see where it takes us.”
After facing Arsenal, Liverpool take on City on Thursday at 8pm.