I feel sorry for Anthony Gordon, getting sent off on Sunday. He’ll miss the cup final now. You’ve got to feel for him. He’s a really good player for them.

But he’s a young lad and he’s reacted. The defender has been at him all game and he’s reacted. But you can’t react like that in this day and age. In my day it probably would have only been a booking, but nowadays it is a sending off.

It’s a shove, not a punch. But you can’t do that. And it’s a really bad lesson. I feel for him because I’ve done it. When I was young, I did stupid things like that. You’ve got to learn from them and I’m sure he will.

It is really heart-breaking for the lad, to miss out on his first Wembley cup final. Especially against his boyhood team. He’s just got to take the experience and become a better player from it.

There will be more cup finals. Who knows, one day he might even join Liverpool and play in them for us! After the talks last summer, you just don’t know. But he’s a really good player and I like him a lot.

Whether he joins us or not in the future, I don’t think it will be the last time he gets to Wembley because he’s a really decent player.

Newcastle might be without Gordon and a couple of other players, but Liverpool can't take it for granted. We saw what can happen last year against Chelsea.

Look at us last year, we had like five kids on the pitch in the final, but they did the job. So you don’t take it for granted. Whoever comes in could play better than Anthony Gordon. It might make them better, you don’t know, but that’s what happened with our young kids last year.

They got the job done against Chelsea and it’s a lesson for us this year. Don’t take anything for granted and just do the job on the day. Play well, take your chances and you win a cup.

Title-race isn’t over

Newcastle tried something different against Liverpool in the league. Maybe Eddie Howe was trying to keep his cards close to his chest ahead of the final, but it didn’t really work.

They weren’t as outgoing as they normally are, or can be. We did what was necessary, it was a really professional job. 1-0 is good enough, 2-0 is good, 3-0 would be even better.

It’s all about the three points, especially at home. I said a few weeks ago that if we win all our home games remaining, we win the league. That still stands now, including Arsenal’s visit to Anfield in May.

So beating Newcastle like we did was a good job done well. But we can’t get carried away in the title-race. Liverpool might be 13 points clear, but I take nothing for granted.

I never say anything because I played in that Arsenal game in 1989 where they pipped us with the last kick of the season. It was an absolute killer. So I never take anything for granted.

All we can do is look to the next game and take it one match at a time. The next one is PSG, back in the Champions League, and then Southampton in the Premier League. We can’t look any further than PSG.

Try and do a good job there and then it’s Southampton, back at Anfield. That’s how the best teams approach things. That’s how winners approach things.

Midfield stepping up

Our midfield has started stepping up in front of goal. It’s well-documented since around Christmas time, the goals that the midfielders are scoring. And some pretty big ones too.

It’s important for them to keep on doing it, because you can’t always rely on your strikers. They all go through barren spells at one time or another.

So you need your midfielders to get in the box, and that’s what Szoboszlai and Mac Allister are starting to do more and more. Gravenberch sits, he doesn’t really get in the box, he just looks after them defensively.

It’s working well. The three of them are working really well together, and it’s the same one when you put Curtis Jones in in place of one of them too. But the starting three are starting more and more together and are getting better and better as the season goes on.