Oxlade-Chamberlain out to emulate Gerrard by inspiring Liverpool's next generation

Oxlade-Chamberlain with the Premier League trophy
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David Lynch23 July 2020

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has explained how a desire to emulate Steven Gerrard drives him to continue making history at Liverpool.

The 26-year-old has played a part in Premier League, Champions League, Uefa Super Cup and Club World Cup glory since joining the Reds from Arsenal in the summer of 2017.

But, speaking after getting his hands on the league trophy on Wednesday evening, Oxlade-Chamberlain insisted he isn't done there.

Instead, he wants to keep the silverware coming so that the next generation of potential Liverpool heroes have someone to look up to, just as he did.

“You can’t take moments and nights like this for granted,” he told the club's official website. “You can’t take playing for an amazing football club like this with fans that care so much, you can’t take that for granted.

“So, as a player you need to seize those sorts of moments. We are here for a short time. We have our little spells hopefully making history at this football club, we’ve got to do our bit to inspire the next generation like Steven Gerrard inspired me.

“At the minute we are going that way to doing that, but we need to go on now and have a strong streak for a few years and once said and done, that will be our story told and this football club will go on and hopefully people can follow us too.

“But we’ve got more work to do here and it’s an amazing start to a journey. We’ve done really well in the last three years since I’ve been here and we need to just keep building on it, but it’s a good time to be a Liverpool player and to be involved in this amazing football club so I’m really looking forward to what comes next, but we need to stay hungry and stay focused.”

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Prior to picking up the Premier League trophy at Anfield last night, Liverpool beat Champions League-chasing Chelsea 5-3 in a thrilling encounter.

Asked if it was difficult for the players to motivate themselves knowing the party that was set to follow the game, Oxlade-Chamberlain replied: “I don’t think it was hard at all.

“It’s a football match against Chelsea, a top team, and when you go out there as a professional you want to beat them.

“We knew what we needed to do, we knew what was coming afterwards but the job in hand was to make sure we got three points today, did our job first and we could worry about this after. I’m glad that we did it.

“Credit to them, they had moments in the game when they fought back and they made it difficult for us but we managed to keep going and find a few more goals to kill the game off in the end.

“It put a nice little cherry on a really nice night for us and we knew we didn’t want it to end tonight in a loss. It would have been the same outcome but we wanted to win to make it a bit more special and to obviously continue the work that needs to be done.”

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