'Probably the best ever win at Home Park'
The win over Liverpool will net Plymouth Argyle an extra £120,000 in prize money as well as a fee for the live broadcast of the match.But Hallett says the money the club will have earned from their 2025 victory will not be as life-changing as the finances they received when they last faced Liverpool in 2017. That year, Argyle, then in League Two, drew 0-0 at Anfield before losing 1-0 in a replay at Home Park, with both matches televised. "The money helps," Hallet said."We're a club that's run on a sustainable basis, we have one of the lowest football budgets in the Championship so anything that comes in is gravy that can go straight to the football squad."But compared with eight years ago when we played Liverpool, that was almost life-changing for the club."The money we made from that single game at Anfield was equivalent to a third of our football budget and now it's only a tiny percentage of our football budget."So it's great, but it's gravy, it's not the main meal."
Far more important is staying in the Championship for a third season.Argyle are four points from safety at the bottom of the table but have found a new lease of life under recently-appointed head coach Miron Muslic.The Austrian succeeded Wayne Rooney last month after the former England captain's disastrous six months in charge that saw Plymouth win just four league games. Since Muslic has taken over, Argyle have won back-to-back games for the first time this season and have lost just two of their last six games. "I haven't seen the data from today but I'm going to guess that we held our own against Liverpool."We held our own against West Brom and we'd not been holding our own, even in games that we won this season, very often."So the underlying performances have been poor but the last few performances have been much, much better, particularly at the back, and I think Arne Slot was saying that the way we were set up made it very difficult to create chances against us."Until recently, we were the easiest team in the Championship to create chances against so something has clearly changed and that gives us hope for the rest of the season."
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