Henderson Inspired By 2013/14 Gaffe

By Joshua Walters

Liverpool midfielder Jordan Henderson has disclosed he always takes inspiration from the side's 2013/14 slip-up against Chelsea that cost them the Premier League title.

Senegalese striker Demba Ba took advantage of Steven Gerrard’s slip to score the opener for the Blues before Willian scored a late second to dent Liverpool’s title bid, allowing Manchester City to capitalise, and Henderson believes that memory has always brought him a lot of motivation.

"Yeah, for me, it's just another thing I've used to keep going," Henderson told the Liverpool Echo. "I channel all my energy into winning games and being successful for Liverpool.

"This is a fantastic team but it's a big month or so for us. Hopefully, we can keep performing and keep winning to get the results that we need to get over the line.

"You want to win trophies, especially when you are at this football club. I try to use that time as an experience and try to help the lads in the best way I can. This is a new chapter and a new team."

"It's a totally different team," he said. "The biggest difference between the team now compared to the team back then is that defensively we're a lot more solid.

"We're conceding a lot fewer goals which is a big thing in the Premier League. That's the biggest thing that I would say. That season we conceded quite a few goals even though we might have been winning games.

"It might have been 5-3 or 5-2 or something like that. We weren't as strong as we would have liked to have been.

"We need to keep going with the clean sheets and defending well as a team as we all know the goals we can score with the quality that we have got."