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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Blood Red from Barcelona: No fear of the Nou Camp and how Liverpool will cope with their ultimate test

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Our Liverpool FC reporting team of James Pearce and Ian Doyle have made their way to Barcelona, and on Monday afternoon, stationed themselves outside the Sagrada Familia to record a special Blood Red podcast, along with Andy Hunter, the Merseyside football correspondent for The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, to preview Wednesday's massive semi-final first leg at the Nou Camp. James starts the podcast with a big claim before Andy, who used to work for the Liverpool Daily Post, explains why the current Reds crop are better than the ones that won the club's last two European trophies. Whereas that latter success, and even the run to last season's Champions League final, came as a surprise, the panel are in no doubt that this Liverpool side are now at the elite level of European football and that they will hold no fear of Barcelona. That said they also agree that this is the Reds' biggest challenge yet, particularly as Barca's side contains Lionel Messi, not to mention Reds old boys Luis Suarez and Philippe Coutinho. James calls it the 'ultimate test' and, along with Ian and Andy, selects the midfield to deal with arguably the best player ever to grace the game. Another problem Jurgen Klopp has to solve is who replaces Roberto Firmino if the brilliant Brazilian is ruled out through injury. But the mood of the podcast is unashamedly positive - unsurprising given Klopp's European record as Reds manager and how he deals with pressure-cooker situations, which is discussed here - and one of excitement at what lies in store in one of the world's footballing cathedrals. If this doesn't get you fired-up for Wednesday, nothing will. Enjoy.  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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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.

0:08.0

Hello everybody and welcome to the latest Liverpool Bloodbread Podcast with me, Ian Doyle.

0:13.3

Joining me today is our full-town Liverpool correspondent, both Home and Away, James Pierce,

0:16.8

are you?

0:17.8

How are you?

0:18.8

Not too bad, how are you?

0:19.8

How are you?

0:20.8

I am fine.

0:21.8

And also joining us in a special guest appearance is the Guardians

0:24.5

Andy Hunter. Hi Andy. Hello Joining

0:27.1

former colleague of mine on the Daily Post. Yes, long time no see. There was a very

0:30.6

long time. Well actually you saw me the week but but never mind about that. Now, James, we are here in Barcelona in front of the Sigrada familiar. It's quite a setting, isn't it? It is, yeah you know the kind of massive European occasions that

0:46.0

that Liverpool fans are getting accustomed to yet again and it had been

0:50.4

probably nine years without participating in the knockout stages of the Champions League and

0:55.9

then that remarkable run to Kiev last season and now on the march again so it doesn't get much bigger does it than the Barcelona at the new camp on Wednesday

1:06.3

night looking forward to it I mean it's it is a big deal for Liverpool it's also a big deal for

1:10.4

Barcelona because they've not been you know producing in the

1:13.2

Champions League as much as they have in in recent seasons 2015 was the last time they

1:16.7

won it yeah obviously it would have been even more difficult for them to take the

1:20.4

fact that real Madrid have dominated the competition in the last three seasons.

1:25.0

So yeah, there's no doubt that this is the, you know, I think you fully expect whoever wins

1:32.0

this semi-final to go on and lift the trophy in Madrid

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