It is fair to say that Kostas Tsimikas has set a high bar for what Liverpool can achieve this season.
The Reds head into 2025 the envy of other clubs in English football, leading the Premier League and Champions League standings, eagerly awaiting a Carabao Cup semi-final and soon to embark on an FA Cup journey.
The 28-year-old was at Anfield in 2021/22, when Jurgen Klopp’s side went on to enter two games of a unique quadruple, eventually winning both domestic cups that year, with the Greek left-back scoring a penalty in the FA Cup. We made it a success. The final penalty shootout against Chelsea.
Tsimikas aims to clean the trophy
Speaking on Liverpool’s official website, Tsimikas confidently declared that Liverpool can win many games this season and challenged his teammates to take a shot at the star.
The Reds’ jersey number 21 is: “I am 100% sure that I want to win it all. I think this team can win it all. So any competition going forward is clear to us. We have to win every game we have left and (try to) win every competition.
“We have set goals from the start of the season and the only thing we have to do is go out and show the world that we are good players, play amazing football and win football games.“
A quadruple would be truly historic.
The fact that no English team has won the aforementioned four trophies in one season shows just how difficult it is to achieve, and what a huge achievement it would be if Liverpool were to do so in 2024/25.
United are yet to lift a trophy this season, so they still have a lot of work ahead of them in that respect, but they couldn’t hope to be in a better position to attack all four competitions in the new year.
Maintaining an 85.2% win rate through May will be quite a challenge for Arne Slot’s team. But they have already shown they can blow teams out of the water, like they did against West Ham on Sunday. Overcoming adversity and claiming victory (e.g. come-from-behind wins against the likes of Brighton and Lakester).
Liverpool will be wary of how they failed during a devastating six-week stretch in the spring in their quest for a quadruple last season, and knockout football brings with it the risk of ‘one strike, you’re out’.
But Tsimikas came close to winning the title three years ago and he knows there’s something special about this Reds team. As they have done so far, they take one obstacle at a time and see where it takes them at the end of the campaign.
There’s also the added motivation to prove them wrong if Gary Neville wins the Premier League title!
