Atletico Madrid midfielder Saul is a Liverpool fan.
And while feasting on the Reds’ 34 wins out of 35 matches this season, he wants nothing more than to break it when they host the Merseysiders in the Champions League Last 16 first round tonight (10pm).
Saul says: “You have to break that [winning run]. We know what their strong points are but we know what their weaknesses are too.
“And we have to make the most of the game at home.”
Up against the defending champions, Saul says he watched Liverpool beat Norwich 1-0 over the weekend thanks to a late strike by Sadio Mane.
In fact, he knows a lot about the Reds.
“I was watching the game against Norwich on Saturday
“If not for the goal from Mane, who produces an extraordinary piece of control, then they don’t win.
“But for a long time now they have been winning games they could have drawn or even lost.
ADMIRE: Jordan Henderson. Picture: PETER POWELL/ EPA
“They always find a way, sometimes in the last minutes, and that tells you something about what they have inside, their character. It’s not luck, it’s work,” he says.
The Spain midfielder is also a big fan of Liverpool’s Jordan Henderson and says: “Henderson does that so-called dirty work that Gabi [Fernandez] used to do for us, that I have to do, that Koke does.
“He is an example in so many facets of the game.”