Blood Red from Barcelona: Mixed emotions, Gomez gamble, and no complaints over Suarez antics

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Before flying back to England, our Liverpool FC reporting team of James Pearce and Ian Doyle recorded their third Blood Red podcast of the week from Barcelona, this time from the city's airport. The mood is mixed - and understandably so. The Reds have given themselves a mountain to climb by losing their Champions League semi-final first leg 3-0 but as James explains, there was much to admire about the brave, bold performance produced by Jurgen Klopp's side at Camp Nou. Sadly, the one thing lacking was a finishing touch, which is something you could not accuse Lionel Messi of not having. James and Ian wonder how you can stop the Barcelona genius and, as much as the result pained them, what a privilege it was to watch Messi at the peak of his powers. But did Liverpool and Klopp help themselves with the formation, selection and timing of substitutions? James and Ian discuss Joe Gomez, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Gini Wijnaldum and Roberto Firmino before outlining why no Red can complain about Luis Suarez's antics. The duo also debate the display of Barca's other Anfield old boy, Philippe Coutinho, and why his withdrawal was such a big turning point, before talk turns to the second leg, Liverpool's chance of a comeback, and the huge match on Saturday in the race for the Premier League title. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast, from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:09.0	Hello everybody and welcome welcome and welcome
0:13.2	joining me today is our full-time Liverpool correspondent
0:16.2	well-time away James Pierce hi jay hello Ian you okay yeah well okay we are here in
0:20.6	Barcelona airport on Thursday morning.
0:23.6	Obviously Liverpool have just seen the hopes of reaching for second successive Champions League final
0:28.8	take something of a rather large knock with a heavy defeat against Barcelona.
0:34.0	Three-nilled the score.
0:35.7	James, what was your overall view of the game?
0:37.4	Was it a little bit harsh, that scoreline on the read?
0:39.6	I think it was incredibly harsh, yeah.
0:41.0	I think real kind of strange mix of emotions today really because I
0:45.5	think performance wise that was that was absolutely bang up there from Liverpool I thought
0:58.3	you know they were brave they were bold, and the way the clops set them up, they were set up to hassle and Harry Barcelona and they dominated chunks of that game you know especially
1:04.3	probably the first 20-25 minutes of the second half when you know the locals were
1:09.2	whistling and jeering and you know and you really sense that Liverpool we're on the brink of swinging the tie their way yet
1:17.0	ultimately they were undone by not being ruthless enough in the final third missing chances
1:23.4	some pretty bad luck along the way as well and then you'd have to say also
1:27.2	the absolute breathtaking brilliant to Lionel Massey whose
1:30.8	two goals in the last 15 minutes of well and truly put Barcelona in a position of ascendancy in the time.
1:38.5	What can we say about Messi?
1:40.0	We all see him on television nearly every week playing for Barcelona and you don't really get a true
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