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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Guillem Balague SPECIAL: Champions League Final Preview | Liverpool vs Real Madrid

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mo Stewart is back with his European Show alongside a Very Special Guest in Journalist, Broadcaster and all-round Spanish Football Expert Guillem Balagué.One of, if not the best in the game when it comes to football in Spain, Guillem casts his expert eye over Liverpool’s Champions League Final Opponents, Real Madrid.With a tactical preview of the Final in Paris and what we can expect from Los Blancos, the pair also react to the news that Kylian Mbappe will remain at Paris Saint-Germain next season, and not move to the Bernabeu, after also dismissing Liverpool’s advances. 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.

0:10.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of the European show I'm your host

0:14.1

most Stuart and I'm very very pleased to be joined by the Premier Spanish

0:19.4

journeys and Broadcaster Mr. Gien Balaget, because once again we are talking about a Spanish

0:26.0

football team. While most other football teams are now well into all of their transfer

0:30.8

title, for Liverpool there is still one more game to go and what a game it is.

0:36.1

Champions League final against the mighty Realm Madrid. Now, Giam, we had Semra Hunter on for our semi-final preview show and she spoke about the Madhidesters

0:46.7

believing that the Champions League was their destiny this year and well almost every year basically

0:56.8

and then they went and beat Manchester City the way that they beat Manchester City. So surely amongst the fans that belief has grown is there similar confidence within the squad you think? Yeah I don't think they believe is their

1:04.3

destiny they just think that they can win it and and they have everything that's required to

1:09.8

to win it so right now yes they are in a final and they're going to go to parties, the ones that will go to parties or the ones that will watch it on television, believing that it's going to happen. I've started doing some previews with some friends and not some

1:25.9

five live and CVS and so on and I've got the impression that many people in

1:30.3

fact I've been asked two or three times already. Do you think Ramele have got a chance?

1:34.3

It's like, what?

1:35.3

I don't know where that confidence comes from.

1:38.9

When you play Ria Mādriam-Adraid,

1:40.1

you should know that the mixture of or the addition of the confidence that comes through the

1:45.6

stands and through the fans the confidence when you wear that white shirt, the history that's behind it, all that put together.

2:00.9

Of course it gives you the feeling that once you're into a final, that is just a game,

2:05.8

of course you can win. Not just that, you go into the pitch thinking, you know, it's possible, it doesn't matter who the rival is so I

2:15.1

don't believe in destiny and all that but I believe that they have created a an

2:21.5

environment a culture in which they go to a game knowing that they will win.

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