Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren has revealed the difficulties that players had to go through when football was halted as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
With Liverpool just two wins away from winning the Premier League title, football had to be suspended as a means of safeguarding the lives of footballers and supporters alike.
“The last two weeks before we came back together, to be honest, I was a little bit struggling with not knowing when we will start and when we will be back together,” the Croatia defender revealed to the club’s website.
“You put so many questions in your mind, ‘When will everything be back to normal?’
“This is a great challenge for yourself and to show to everyone that you care about yourself, you care about your team.”
“So we did it, and we did an amazing job. We came back in a great shape. We did some physical tests and I think it says a lot about the team,” he said.
“Everyone respected all the planning and programmes that we got. And this is what’s important for this team.”
“Of course we still have two games [to win until] we can say, ‘Yeah, we are the champions’ but our main focus is to win all the games. That’s the main target,” he said.
“To be honest, even without a date at the beginning, our main focus and goal was, ‘Guys, let’s finish the season.
“There will be a date back, but just stay in shape, be in shape when we come back. We will do it and then we can say well done.’
“That was our main focus from the beginning. All the time we have been working in the gym, we know what is our focus.”
