The Toffees legend commented after the Reds knocked Barcelona out in the Champions League semi-final second leg.
Liverpool’s remarkable Champions League semi-final second leg win over Barcelona and subsequent progress to the final has got praise from Everton legend Neville Southall.
Having lost 3-0 at Camp Nou in the first leg, few were giving the Reds much, if any, hope of coming back from that defeat.
However, come back is just what they did, as Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum each bagged a brace to blow Barca away and proceed to the final 4-3 on aggregate.
Southall, one of Everton’s greatest players of all time, took to Twitter with a six-word message aimed at his ex-club’s city rivals:
The Welshman is known for being a humble, modest and altruistic person, and his comments were appreciated by a number of fans of both Everton and Liverpool:
Some Toffees fans, meanwhile, did not share the same perspective:
Liverpool’s rout is the first time since 1986 – when Barcelona knocked out Gothenburg in the European Cup – that a team have recovered a three-goal first-leg deficit to win a semi-final in this competition.
Jurgen Klopp’s charges have reached their second Champions League final in succession and will aim for their sixth European Cup when they face Madrid on 1 June, where they will meet either Ajax or Tottenham Hotspur in the final.
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