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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Jurgen Klopp on Gomez and Alexander-Arnold fitness, 'Snowgate', title nerves and Liverpool's trip to West Ham United

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was back in front of the media today to preview the trip to West Ham United on Monday and talk many other things beside.Topics included the fitness of Trent Alexander-Arnold and Joe Gomez, whose injuries have left Klopp with a major headache at right-back, and the departure of forgotten man Lazar Markovic to Premier League rivals Fulham.Klopp also responded to accusations of gamemanship during half-time of the 1-1 draw with Leicester City at Anfield and addressed the matter of title nerves, which certainly affected the crowd on Wednesday night.The Reds boss also talked his captain Jordan Henderson, who is on the verge of making his 300th Premier League appearance, Naby Keita, the depth and versatility of his squad, and the threat posed by West Ham on Monday.You can listen to the press conference in full here - and we'll be back soon with the Allez Les Rouges 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. So that's probably the moment before.

0:13.0

It's probably in the move that he needed at the stage, isn't it?

0:16.0

Yeah, for him it's brilliant.

0:18.0

It was...

0:19.0

I can imagine, unbelievable difficult for him.

0:21.0

That was not too easy for me.

0:22.0

That's not too important because having a player like him in the wider

0:26.3

squad and not using him, but that was clear.

0:30.2

Lasano knew for a long time how our plans are and for different reasons transfers

0:38.0

didn't work out and we were not responsible for that let me say like this and now he can go to

0:44.1

him to to full them can use and show his potential again which is which I'm

0:49.6

happy for him is a good lad and a really good footballer and hopefully it will work out for him.

0:57.0

Just back to Wednesday night, it's been highlighted that obviously only one half of the pitch was cleared of snow at half time.

1:04.3

Give us any kind of thinking behind that because people have mentioned the word

1:09.9

games and shit, don't they?

1:12.0

No. The situation was the was the like that.

1:15.0

The situation was like probably everybody saw.

1:20.0

When we had the warming up it started snowing and the pitch was completely okay

1:26.2

then we went in and then when we came out it was like full of hail or

1:31.7

whatever or wet snow was really difficult

1:34.6

which was difficult so and pretty much I would say we had the first half around about

1:38.8

80% of the balls the only one team really suffered from that it was us so but not because of that it was

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