From Firmino's late winner to miracle of Anfield - James Pearce on Liverpool's road to Madrid

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It's getting close now. But before the build-up to Saturday's Champions League final really kicks in, we've taken the chance to step back and reflect for our latest podcast on the Blood Red channel - on how Jurgen Klopp's superb side have made it to Madrid. And who better to do that than our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce? He has been with the Reds every step of the way to the Wanda Metropolitano and he joins Paul Wheelock in the ECHO studio to tell the inside story of what, for the second season running, has been a campaign to remember in the number one club competition in European football. From Roberto Firmino's last-gasp winner versus Paris Saint-Germain, to the hell of Red Star Belgrade, and to the night that Alisson Becker underlined why he has made the crucial difference, James recounts how Liverpool made it through a very difficult group stage before putting Bayern Munich and Porto to the sword in the opening knock-out rounds. Understandably, a large part of the podcast is dedicated to the astonishing semi-final second-leg success over Barcelona, which James believes proved the power of Anfield is real and which he calls the greatest night of his eight-and-a-half-years reporting on the Reds. Which, of course, could be surpassed if Number Six is achieved this weekend. Fingers crossed - and enjoy! 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	The Blood Red Podcast is heading to Dublin and the D2 Bar for an exclusive live Champions League final preview night brought to you by Carsbeck on Wednesday, May 29th.
0:08.0	Our very own James Pierce and Ian Doyle will be joined by host Phil Egan from the off the ball and Stephen Daly from the
0:13.8	LFC day trippers podcast. Doors open at 7 p.m. with the event kicking off at 730 p.m.
0:18.4	And tickets are exclusive to competition winners. To enter, visit blood Red. i.e.
0:23.4	Don't miss out.
0:24.4	This is the Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the
0:29.7	inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:33.0	Hello, my name is Paul Relock and welcome to a special spin-off edition of the Blood Red
0:37.6	podcast.
0:38.6	So much of our focus in the build-up to Saturday's Champions League final has been and will be centered on the massive match itself.
0:44.4	But for this podcast we will be concentrating on the road to Madrid and just how
0:47.9	Liverpool have made it to a second successive final. And I'm delighted to be joined by the man who has been with the Reds every step of the way.
0:54.1	Our Liverpool FC correspondent, James Fis.
0:57.0	How you doing Paul? You okay?
0:58.0	Yeah, all right, mate. Thank you very much for agreeing to do this, mate.
1:00.8	We did a similar podcast, didn't we we this time last year before the the key
1:04.4	final where 12 month goes I don't know when it was clear then that it was the
1:08.3	beginning of something for Liverpool and and not the end despite the defeats
1:11.4	the rail Madrid but could you have imagined a year on that they're making of a final.
1:16.6	No in all honesty not not because I didn't think they were good enough because I think
1:20.9	you know we'd seen such thrilling development that you kind of knew that Kiev
1:25.8	wasn't going to be a one-off but just because it is so difficult to get there.
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