I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving.

In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.

When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

Physically and mentally I'm stronger right now because an injury is not playing on my mind all the time.

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

You have to be physical - that's the way it is in a midfield in the modern game.