Sven-Goran Eriksson described managing Liverpool legends as a “memory for life” after guiding them to a 4-2 comeback victory over Ajax.
The Swedish manager was granted his wish of managing Liverpool, the club he has supported since he was a young boy, after revealing his terminal cancer diagnosis back in December.
The Reds came from two nil down at half-time to secure a 4-2 win against Ajax in front of a packed Anfield, with Fernando Torres and Djibril Cisse amongst the scorers for Liverpool.
When asked to describe the experience, Eriksson was understandably emotional about the whole occasion:
“I think everybody was a winner today and it was beautiful, absolutely fantastic, incredible: everything from You’ll Never Walk Alone and the rest of the match, and a good win – we were 2-0 down and won 4-2!
“We were all the time the better team, I think, so it was a fair result. But this [Anfield] is fantastic. I think we were the better team even in the first half, even if we were 2-0 down.
“You always worry when you lose but as I said, very good first half and extremely good second half. A good win, a fair win, but the big winners are everybody here.
“I think the Man of the Match is the public, the crowd, but it was a good football game to look at. They [the players] can still play football. Very good.
“They are not 20 years old anymore and it’s good football, extremely good football. It’s fantastic, they come from all over the place, all over Europe and he [Steven Gerrard] is coming from another part of the world to do this and it’s fantastic.
“[It is] a memory for life.”
