The Wolves skipper and his teammates go into Sunday’s game – where they will be reunited with former old gold forward Diogo Jota – off the back of a difficult week following the fractured skull suffered by talismanic forward Raul Jimenez at Arsenal last weekend, but Coady and his team have been boosted by the positive daily updates on the Mexican’s condition which have been keeping the spirits up in the gold and black camp.
On keeping team morale high following Raul’s injury
“We’ve spoken to him every day and he’s been chatting on the group messages, so that’s been really good to see. We’ve also been speaking to the doctor every day about him because everybody was worried, and everybody wants him to recover safely and healthily.
“When it happened it was horrible, and I can’t explain what it was like, because he’s a massive part of our team, a massive part of the group and a massive friend to everyone in our team.
“We’ve had to keep morale high, but this week’s been good because we’ve been getting good news about him and things seem to be going ok, he seems to be happy with what’s going on, and time will tell with how he recovers.
“At the moment, we’re just happy that everything is going alright, but there’s still a long way to go and we just hope and pray that everything will be alright with him.”
— Raúl Jiménez (@Raul_Jimenez9) November 30, 2020
On returning to Anfield as a former Red
“It’s a place where everyone looks forward to going, not just myself, because when you go and play Liverpool, you want to test yourself against the best players.
“You want to impose your style of play, impose your way of playing and show people how much you’re improving, and that’s no different from anybody else.
“I’ve been back there a few times over the last couple of years and not got the results we wanted, so it’s important we go there and impose our way of playing and hopefully come away with a good result.”
On taking confidence from last season’s tight matches against Liverpool
“I don’t think it’s just from going there last season, I think it’s the way we play, the way we work together, the way we compete, the way we do things and the way we listen to our manager that gives us belief.
“We had a good result last week, and we’ve had a few good results this season. We’ve also listened to the manager the last couple of weeks about changes in the way he wants us to play, and it’s been great and something we’ve all taken on board.”