Former
Liverpool player talks about Steven Gerrard, returning to Portugal and how Spurs loanee Marcus Edwards is settling in at Vitória
As the ball trickled towards the line at Anfield, João Teixeira held one arm aloft thinking he had scored the first winning goal of the Jürgen Klopp era at Liverpool. Unfortunately, Bournemouth’s Adam Smith cleared the ball at the last second, only to see Nathaniel Clyne tap home and write his name in the history books instead.
For Teixeira, whose Vitória de Guimarães team travel to
Arsenal in the Europa League on Thursday, it was still his best moment in a Liverpool shirt and he immediately perks up as he paints the picture once again in his own mind. It summed him up as a player – a clever run in behind the defence to receive a Roberto Firmino pass, before backheeling the ball beyond the goalkeeper with an incredible feat of ingenuity and skill, only to see it reward someone else.