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Liverpool Daily Post, 19 May 2005
We'll work like lions and fight like tigers
By Paul Walker, Daily Post Correspondent

JOHN ARNE RIISE has warned Champions League favourites AC Milan that
Liverpool will "work like lions and fight like tigers" in next week's
final in Istanbul.

The Norwegian international has been one of Liverpool's stand-out
performers in a dramatic season which has seen them knock out Italian
champions-elect Juventus and Premiership champions Chelsea. It will
climax with the sixth European Cup final in their history at the Ataturk
Stadium.

Riise claims that he and the Anfield players are determined to write
their names in that history of the club.

"You always want to be able to write history at the club you are playing
for, and the whole team is now just one game away from doing that here
at Liverpool," said the 24--year-old left-side player.

"To have the chance to put myself with some of the big names that have
represented this club is beyond my wildest dreams.

"I have always wanted to be in the final of the Champions League and win
it with Liverpool, because that is where this club belongs."

Riise, talking in the club's LFC magazine, added: "It will be a dream
come true for every single player here.

"We know it will be a hard game but we cannot stop thinking that if we
do win the cup it will go down in history.

"Without doubt this is the pinnacle of my career.

"I won the league in France with Monaco and finished second in my first
season with Liverpool.

"But the Champions League trophy is the biggest thing you can win in
club football.

"Just to walk out in the stadium and take part in the final will be the
biggest moment of my career.

"To have such a game on your CV is great for any player, and to have
done it with the biggest club ever in England is even better."

Despite his appetite for the occasion, Riise is aware that Liverpool
cannot hope to have it all their own way in Turkey.

However he has warned Milan just how hard Liverpool will fight for the
crown.

"We are going to work like lions and fight like tigers," he vowed.

"It is the last game of the season for us and the biggest in everyone's
career so we are going to give it our all, that's for sure."

Riise hopes that the side will know before next week's final whether
they will be allowed back into the competition next season as holders.

The Norwegian said: "Hopefully we will know before we play what the
outcome will be should we win. Just winning the Champions League alone
is enough incentive for us, but it would give us that extra boost if we
knew about next season."

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