Behind Enemy Lines: Lowdown on the team out to stun Liverpool and put Mexican football on the map

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

News, Soccer, Sports, Sports News

4.4 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Monterrey could not be in much better form going into tonight’s FIFA Club World Cup semi-final with Liverpool. The CONCACAF champions are on a 14-game unbeaten run under returning manager Antonio Mohamed that has seen them move within two matches of winning Liga MX. But it would still be a huge upset if the Mexican outfit were to beat Liverpool, the European champions. But the Reds did appear weary in their 2-0 triumph over Watford at Anfield at the weekend and their injury-hit squad will have had little time to prepare for the last-four clash at the Khalifa International Stadium having only arrived in Qatar on Sunday. In contrast Monterrey will have been in the country for nine days by the time this evening’s match gets under way. Will that be an advantage? Who are the players Liverpool should look out for? And what kind of game are we expecting? Paul Wheelock speaks Mexican football expert Tom Marshall to find out. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is the Behind Enemy Lines Podcast on the Blood Red channel, bringing you the
0:06.9	inside track on Liverpool FC's next opponents.
0:10.6	Hello, I'm Paul Relock and welcome to the Behind Enemy Lines podcast to get the
0:15.6	lowdown on Liverpool's next opponent at Monterrey. The Cockakaff
0:19.0	champions take on the European champions in the FIFA Club World Cup
0:22.2	semi-final at the Khalifa International
0:24.2	Stadium in Doha on Wednesday and like Liverpool they couldn't come into the match in much
0:28.4	better form.
0:29.4	But I'm not going to lie, my knowledge of Monterrey does not stretch much further beyond that so that's why I
0:33.7	picked up the phone to Mexican football expert and E-SPN writer Tom Marshall
0:37.6	to learn more about the side standing in the way of Liverpool and Saturday's final
0:41.6	enjoy Liverpool and Saturday's final. Enjoy.
0:43.0	Behind enemy lines on the Blood Red Channel.
0:47.0	Well, hi Tom, thank you very much for joining me from Mexico City
0:52.0	to talk Monterrey ahead of the FIFA club
0:54.4	World Cup semi-final against Liverpool. How are you mate?
0:57.6	Yeah I'm good, thanks Paul. Yeah, I think you know the fact Monterrey ring Qatar has meant that the final of the Mexican season has actually been delayed so there's not much going on right now in Mexican soccer apart from
1:10.0	apart from this game obviously the semi-final against Liverpool.
1:13.7	Definitely we will get on to that in a minute but he kind of leads into what was going to be
1:17.8	one of the first questions because I may be wrong but I just feel this match in the FIFA Club World Cup in general has been
1:24.8	overshadowed here on Merseys by Liverpool's you know pursuits as a Premier League title and obviously they've got the
1:29.6	defence and the Champions League as well but you're saying, like Mexican football has stood still almost for this game.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Reach Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Reach Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.