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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Jurgen Klopp on Roberto Firmino fitness, Naby Keita illness, Watford visit, and Liverpool's 'pure opportunity'

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has just sat down in front of the media at Melwood for his pre-Watford press conference - and you can listen to every word he had to say here.Klopp kicks off by providing a positive fitness update on Roberto Firmino after he came off injured in Sunday's 0-0 draw at Manchester United before revealing Naby Keita has been laid low by illness.The Reds boss also talks the danger posed by in-form Watford, says a very funny line about his predecessor Brendan Rodgers, who looks set to return to the Premier League with Leicester City, before spelling out just why everyone should be positive about his table-topping side's chances of winning the league for the first time since 1990. 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. Looks good. We were obviously lucky. It's not as serious as we thought in the first moment obviously because if Bobby goes down

0:25.3

goes to the pitch then it's always a bad sign because a pretty hard boy but yeah

0:31.0

so will be of course because we play tomorrow will be very close for that but a big

0:37.3

chance for the Derby. Because it's Bobby I would say yes but I don't know if I would use that chance

0:48.6

then because of it was only played on Sunday and then immediately. But I'm writing Bobby obviously a big mistake

0:56.1

because he recovers pretty quick.

0:58.9

As far as what are concerned, how tricky a game is this for you?

1:02.1

Because they're in a real good run of form offered and

1:04.4

with possibly one eye on a big game on Sunday?

1:08.3

How tricky is this game?

1:09.8

I'm not sure if you at this question is really

1:19.8

very often asking I don't I really don't think that ever in the history of football any manager thought about the game on Sunday when they play on Wednesday, to be honest.

1:24.0

So, but Watford is a difficult one.

1:28.2

Of course, they are not a good run and the thing is they have different sides of football

1:32.1

they play.

1:32.6

Usually they play against a, we have made an analyze obviously

1:37.6

and against the top six, they don't have a lot of possession

1:40.4

obviously because they are a proper counter-taking threat good around set pieces stuff like that good around

1:46.3

second balls so deep defending all that stuff that is different to play other teams then they are much more proactive, let me say, like this.

1:56.8

So we need to be ready for both, but probably we will have the ball sometime in the game and yeah we need to do something with that that's

2:05.8

a plan of course but nothing to do with the game on Sunday it's only itself it's a

2:11.9

difficult game because the Premier League game begins a good side.

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