“Anfield is the only place you don't want to go to for the return leg".
“The most heated stadium in Europe in a return game”.
Wenger
“Anfield. Electric.
“It’s a marvellous atmosphere. You have to expect that atmosphere even if you’re losing.
“It was a really volatile atmosphere.”
– Sir Alex Ferguson
“For my first few years at Arsenal we didn’t do well there, but we improved. It’s the atmosphere I love. It’s unbelievable.
“I’ve played in a lot of stadiums but for me there is nothing like playing at Liverpool.Nothing can beat Highbury, of course, but playing at Anfield was great.
“The fans always sing and hold up their scarves before and after the game – whether they have won or lost. It must be amazing if you are a Liverpool player.”
– Thierry Henry
“There is a word that we use in Spain in cycling, when a cyclist is going up and looks amazing, then in one kilometre he goes ‘boom’ and looks like he’s struggling again.
“The word is bajar and I had it once, at Anfield.
“The game was going well and then suddenly I could only see red shirts flying around. The game is passing all over me and I cannot react.
“People said ‘what is he doing?’ and I cannot do it, I cannot do it emotionally, physically I cannot cope, everything goes too fast.
“I only had that feeling in my career once and it was at Anfield.”
– Mikel Arteta, who played You’ll Never Walk Alone during an Arsenal training session to prepare his team for Anfield
“Anfield is hell, you have to say it how it is. It’s hell.
“It’s the worst stadium I’ve been to in England. Whether it’s the atmosphere, the way they play…for 90 minutes, you live in hell.
“They have this ability to transcend themselves, to cause you nothing but problems, all the time, in any part of the field.
“They never stop, they rush you all the time, they only want to score goals, and even when they score, they carry on. They want to knock you out.
“They don’t care what or who is in front of them. They just want to kill everyone and that’s it.”
– Etienne Capoue, after Liverpool beat Villarreal 2-0 at Anfield in the 2021/22 Champions League semi-finals
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