I was playing in the game when Steven Gerrard slipped. I felt sorry for him, he deserved to win at least one Premier League - maybe he could have gone to another club and won five' Nemanja Matic on the Liverpool legend

""My son recently asked me, Dad, what was Gerrard like?' I said he was one of the hardest players to play against, along with Yaya Toure," Matic tells FourFourTwo. "Amazing players. He asked if I'd seen him slip I said I was there and told him to look at who the first player to approach Demba Ba to celebrate was. Me!""

""I was happy that we won the game, but I felt a bit sorry for Gerrard. He deserved to win at least one Premier League. "Maybe he could have gone to another club and won five he was good enough. "[Jose] Mourinho told us before that game, 'Listen guys, we don't want to be clowns at their party, we need to destroy the party.'""

Nemanja Matic currently plays for Sassuolo while retaining significant Premier League pedigree. He played for Chelsea and Manchester United and won the Premier League twice with Chelsea in 2014–15 and 2016–17. Matic was part of the Chelsea midfield during the April 2014 match in which Steven Gerrard slipped and Demba Ba scored, a moment that affected the title outcome. Matic described Gerrard and Yaya Touré as among the hardest players to face and said he felt some sympathy that Gerrard never won a Premier League title. José Mourinho urged the team to “destroy the party” before that game.

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