Hello everyone, it is the Red Med TV and Liverpool are back in Champions League action.

It is the last 16 Liverpool versus Porto over in Portugal.

Me and Chris will be there but for right here and now we are here in the studio.

We are joined by Ross Chandler as well.

Paul, this is massive, you know, because this is the first time we've ever done a last 16 game

in the Champions League buildup show. Yeah. The very first time. There's not many firsts we get to do with Red Ben TV have to follow in Liverpool for so long and doing this for so long. This is the first time we get to do it. We're going to go for a high five on camera. Can we do it? Yes, Paul. High thumb. That's why we've never tried a high five on camera before.

I feel violated, but in a good way.

Ross, nine years since we were in the last 16 of the Champions League,

I think there's a temptation, I think, to look at it and go, Porto.

You know, it's not Real Madrid or Barcelona or Bayern Munich and what have you.

But this is a massive game.

It's a massive game for this club, and it's a great signifier to the development of this side

has been on for the last few years that we can go into our last 16 game,

feeling upbeat, feeling excited, feeling positive about it.

Yeah, I think because it's been so long as well, people aren't getting complacent thinking, like you said, it's Porto, it's not a walkthrough in the park, we know that because it's so difficult to get into Europe and when we were in the in the Champions of last time we didn't even get out the group stages but it's just

nice to have something to a look forward to a European fixture and the first

ones away it's kind of thinks you something to, A, look forward to a European fixture and the first one's away. It's kind of things, you know, them days where you're having away fiction and you come home and at Anfield European nights, looking forward to that as well. I think that's a massive thing that, Chris, is exactly what Ross has said there. That's how we've had some great success with that formula in the past. You've only got a look back to the last time we won it, of course.

We got a lot of those plum drawers. And I, yeah, it's just something we've not witnessed. I've not been to a truly, you know, we went to Madrid. To the debacle that was Rail Madrid. Yeah. The absolute debacle of Rail Madrid. so you know to go and see in a massive competitive game. This is, you know, I mean, again we saw the Europa League final. I've seen European games, so Haufenheim away this season, but this is... This is where it's at. I'm excited to go over there tomorrow. I can't wait, I've never done a European away in the last 16th of the Champions League. I cannot wait to go over there and sing my heart out all day, be that in a square or in a pub or wherever I'm going to, in the toilet, I don't care. I'm going to be screaming and singing my heart out. And you're going to be gutted because you're in the same hotel room as me. And Sae's going to be gutted because he's in the same hotel. I'm going to be singing loud. Some of some loud poos. Yeah, look, it's...

You could get thrown down. And Cy's going to be gutter because he's in the same hotel. I'm going to be singing loud. Some loud poos.

Yeah, look, it's... You could get thrown off the plane, aren't you? So what? As long as I'm in Porto, I don't mind. Yeah. Although we do have a connecting flight. That might be an issue. Yes, yes. Let's... No singing until we're grounded. Let's ramping up.

We'll ramp it up over a couple of days.

The Portoogues, it's hard to think,

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