Xabi: We Care!

29 Oct 2005 Liverpool 2-0 West Ham - EPL

BBC - Liverpool bounced back from their midweek Carling Cup humbling by beating West Ham with goals from Xabi Alonso and Boudewijn Zenden.

Alonso: "We are a big club and if you have a bad performance then you know you will be criticised. It is best to concentrate on improving and not to bother with what is written about you. But we all care. We all feel the disappointment, we all wear the shirt and know what that means. Anyone who says we don't have pride in playing for Liverpool should have seen us in the dressing room when we lost to Fulham. Everyone was really down and all you could see in the dressing room was sad faces. That should answer any suggestion that we don't care.

That is why we are all committed to the club and trying to do things as well as possible and to climb the table. It is my second season here but I really feel the pride of wearing a Liverpool shirt, I am fully committed to the club. Always there is something to prove. When situations like this arise you always have to show you are a good team, you understand that people will criticise and you accept it."

Zenden: "It was special to get my first in front of the Kop. It was good for me and good to settle the match that way. That [win] was a big boost for our confidence and I was pleased to get my first goal."