Source: FOOTYMAD
Roy hoping for NESV lift
Roy Hodgson is hoping NESV's takeover can give everyone a boost. Hodgson is hopeful Liverpool can escape from the relegation places when they play Blackburn at Anfield tomorrow and believes the arrival of the club's new owners and the feelgood factor they have brought can give everybody a lift which can only help against Rovers. "Things really have not gone our way for a variety of reasons and that's why we find ourselves down at the bottom and desperately wanting to get away from there as soon as possible, yesterday let alone tomorrow," said the boss. "But I think the new owners have already done a lot for the club. They have given the club a lift. Even before the Everton game, I think there was a certain buoyancy, a feel-good feeling that we could start to rebuild, to put things right and get ourselves on a good footing once again. "Sunday gives us the ideal opportunity to do this. Unfortunately, Blackburn will have something to say about that. They won't be lying down and will be wanting to get a result. "The good thing is that we showed against Napoli that we are far from dead as a club by doing as well as we have in our other Europa League games. "I know all the players that get a chance to play on Sunday will be chomping at the bit to get out there and run, work and fight. "What I am hoping for is a little bit of luck so the result goes our way - whether we play well or we play badly - and that we give ourselves a bit of breathing space in order to start rebuilding and try to move up the table rather than constantly finding ourselves marooned at the wrong end. "We've got to keep going. The good thing is that I have not prejudiced that game [Blackburn] by forcing players to play three matches in a week, which could quite easily have prejudiced the chances of finding the intensity I'm looking for."
