I look at my World Cup winners' medal every single day - now I want a Liverpool one next to it
Alexis Mac Allister says he will tap into his experience of the World Cup final when Liverpool meet Chelsea in the Carabao Cup showpiece on Sunday.
And the Reds midfielder says he never attempted to convince Brighton team-mate Moises Caicedo to move to Anfield with him when the midfielder was surveying two offers from Chelsea and Liverpool in August.
Mac Allister has enjoyed a fine debut season since moving from the south coast in early June for £35m and has excelled in a deeper midfield role than he had previously been used to both at the Amex Stadium and for the Argentina national side.
The 25-year-old was already on the Reds' radar when he was part of the Argentina team that won the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 and he believes he can use his handling of the biggest game in football when he takes part in his first final for the Reds this weekend.
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"Of course it will be my first final with Liverpool and first opportunity to win something so it is going to be something very special for me and the team," Mac Allister said. "We haven’t been thinking a lot about the final because we had a lot of games and this one (against Luton) was a big one as well but now we have time to think about it, to prepare for it well because we are going to play against a very good team and we will try to win it.
"As you say, maybe it is the biggest game in the world, the World Cup final, but I am still young as well, I am 25 and I think every player and every person is different so I wouldn’t say much to them, they just need to enjoy their football
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