Zola tips Liverpool to win Premier League

Dec 1 2008 by Our Correspondent, Liverpool Daily Post

Striker Craig Bellamy will come up against his old side, and Zola believes he is capable of being a match-winner.

“Last Sunday he helped the team a lot and I was pleased with his attitude,” he said.

“This week he’s been good in training and I’m sure he can be one of the players who can change the game.”

Captain Lucas Neill, who turned down Liverpool to join West Ham in 2007, is targeting another solid performance in defence.

“Anfield is always a tough place to go and we’ll be coming up against a team full of fantastic players so it’s going to be interesting,” he said.

“We’ll be going there knowing we have to work hard. But we will give ourselves a chance if we can keep a clean sheet for a long period of the game because you always get one or two chances at Anfield and it’s up to us to be ruthless enough to take them.”

Zola feels the win at Sunderland has made a huge difference to the build-up ahead of the trip to Anfield.

“It was a great result and certainly helped the players to feel a little bit more comfortable,” he said.

“It’s important you get wins. It doesn’t matter if you play well, if you don’t pick up victories and points your confidence goes down.

“So I’m very pleased and it seems to have given them an extra boost in confidence which is important.”

Velon Behrami, who scored last Sunday’s winner at the Stadium of Light, added: “We have to improve a lot of things but this is the right way and we want to continue in this way.”