Two days before he becomes a front-runner for Goal of the Season, Daniel Sturridge speaks with what, in hindsight, feels like an eerie, knowing sense of the future.
“Whatever decisions the manager makes, he’s the boss,” says Liverpool’s No.15. “Whatever team he picks, you just give your best whether you come on for five minutes or start the game. It’s just about giving everything on the pitch whenever you get the minutes.”
It is probably more telling, however, to calculate Sturridge’s impact on Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea in the Premier League in seconds.
Only 152 of them had elapsed after his introduction as a substitute at Stamford Bridge – and barely 90 remained in normal time for the Reds to rescue a point against his former club – when the 29-year-old struck.
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