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🚨Rayan Cherki on what Enzo Maresca told them at half-time against Liverpool: 🗣️Reporter: “Rayan, the atmosphere at Anfield was hostile, with Liverpool fans chanting ‘cheats’ and ‘robbers’ at Manchester City. What did Enzo Maresca tell you in the dressing room at half-time?” 🎙️Rayan Cherki: “The atmosphere was unbelievable. The fans were chanting, calling us cheats and robbers, and you could feel the hostility every time we touched the ball. They wanted to get inside our heads, and honestly, that's what makes playing at Anfield so difficult. “But at half-time, Enzo Maresca said something to us that really stayed with me. “He looked at us and asked, ‘Do you want these fans to have the last laugh? Do you want to walk off this pitch knowing that their chants got into your heads?’ “Then he told us something I'll never forget. ‘Let's go out there and show them that it's our football that got us here, not cheating. Let them sing whatever they want. We know the work we've put in, and the best response is to play football.’ 🗣️Reporter: “Did that message change the mood in the dressing room?” 🎙️Cherki: “Absolutely. We knew we couldn't control what the supporters were saying, but we could control how we played. The manager wanted us to stop thinking about the noise and concentrate on the game. “He told us to move the ball, trust our quality and play with the same courage that had brought us success. We weren't going to win anything by arguing with the crowd or reacting to every chant. “When we came back out, the message was simple: let our football do the talking. We knew people had questions about the club, and we understood why emotions were running high. But on that pitch, our responsibility was to compete and give everything for the team. 🗣️Reporter: “So the message was to answer the accusations on the pitch?” 🎙️Cherki: “Exactly. Maresca made it clear that we shouldn't allow the atmosphere to distract us from our responsibility as players. ‘If people call us cheats, we don't answer with words. We answer with our football.’ “That was the mentality we took into the second half. We wanted to show our quality, fight for each other and make sure the football—not the noise from the stands—defined our performance.”