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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

James Pearce previews Liverpool’s mouthwatering Champions League match at Paris Saint-Germain – and looks back at an interesting press confe

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Not long to go now, Reds.Liverpool are in Champions League action at the Parc des Princes tonight, taking on the superstars of Paris Saint-Germain.But going into what is a mouthwatering match between two of the best strikeforces in world football, it is PSG who are under the most pressure.And to explain why, Paul Wheelock picks up the phone to our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce, who is in the French capital to cover this evening’s game for the ECHO.James believes it has the making of an absolutely fascinating fixture.But he was also interested by the mood of the respective managers, Jurgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel, at last night’s press conference.James, in particular, was taken by the comments Tuchel made about the Reds’ ‘team spirit’ and the comments made by Klopp on which side has more riding on the outcome of the match.Our man in the know at Anfield also talks the revitalised Mohamed Salah and Klopp’s possible line-up for an encounter that has all the makings of a classic.Enjoy the match – and we’ll be back after it with our Post-Game podcast.  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.

0:08.0

Well, hi James, thank you very much for joining us live on Palace to preview Liverpool's match against PSG tonight.

0:14.4

It's pointedly the weather doesn't sound any better than it is back on mercy side.

0:19.1

No it's not, no it's been pretty damp and dreary in the French capital since we arrived about 24 hours ago.

0:28.0

But I've seen a lot of Liverpool fans trying to shelf the elements.

0:35.0

I've seen absolutely hundreds and hundreds of them descending on Paris today.

0:41.0

Many of them still looking for tickets actually because I think this has been the kind of the one trip

0:48.0

in the group stages that more than any, you know, the fans have been excited about and looking forward to and yeah, there's a

0:56.3

been a real clamor to try and lay your hands on tickets and there's plenty still looking for them.

1:01.6

Yeah, was it a quiet night for yourself last night after doing the press conferences or did you and the lads

1:06.3

sample the bright lights of Paris?

1:08.0

I hope we sampled a few of light lights.

1:11.0

Yeah, not, not it was a bit of this,, yeah, not, not, it was,

1:13.2

the weather was that bad, you know, that's a very brave man

1:16.3

to venture too far, but no, we're staying in the neighborhood

1:21.6

actually near to the park the France which is it's probably

1:26.4

one of the nicest areas of parents actually in terms of the Roland Garros is

1:30.3

only just around the corner where the tennis is.

1:33.0

So yeah, I think Stad the France is,

1:37.0

from what I've heard, is very different in terms of I think you need to be pretty careful

1:40.0

around that area, but I know it's no complaints is pretty pretty nice around here and

1:46.7

yeah the clock was on good form at the press conference yesterday I think that people probably

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