Liverpool midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai has inadvertently revealed the team’s next goal while praising club legend Steven Gerrard.
Szoboszlai is a proud custodian of the no.8 shirt and the eighth player to permanently wear the jersey for Liverpool in the Premier League. But none are more famous than Gerrard, the Reds’ former skipper who owned no.8 for 11 years during his playing days at Anfield.
There are other similarities between Szoboszlai and Gerrard, like their penchant for scoring from distance, relentless work rate out of possession and intelligent tactical understanding of the game.
But, following Sunday’s win over Tottenham Hotspur, Szoboszlai now is the owner of one thing Gerrard doesn’t have: A Premier League winner’s medal.
The 44-year-old claimed every major honor at Liverpool bar the one he craved most, and Gerrard is widely considered the greatest Premier League player never to win the title.
It was something Szobszlai was asked about following Sunday’s title victory. “He is a club legend,” the former RB Leipzig replied when speaking to Spiler TV, as relayed by Hungary Today.
“I think he did so much for the club that he should be remembered as a legend, even if he did not win the Premier League, but he has won something I have not won. Now that is the next goal.”
In answering the question, Szoboszlai touched on perhaps the next step for this Arne Slot side if it is to establish itself as a truly great Liverpool team: win the Champions League.
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Gerrard guided Rafael Benitez’s iteration to Europe’s biggest prize in 2005, but the lack of a Premier League title means that team is not considered one of Liverpool’s best.
However, the sides that had copious league and European triumphs in the 1970s and ‘80s certainly are, along with the squad assembled by Jurgen Klopp, which won the Champions League in 2019 and the Premier League the following year certainly is. That’s now the aim for Szoboszlai and Co.
The Hungarian has enjoyed an excellent second season on Merseyside and has missed just two games so far in the title-winning Premier League campaign. Szoboszlai has started 26 of the 34 matches and has provided five goals and six assists.
However, Jamie Carragher claimed earlier this year that he wants to see more in terms of output from the 24-year-old.
“I’m not Dominik Szoboszlai’s biggest fan,” the former defender said in February. “He’s great off the ball, but he’s a no.10 and only scored three goals.”
