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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Press Conference: Jurgen Klopp ahead of Arsenal's visit to Anfield

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Jurgen Klopp has been addressing the media ahead of tomorrow's crunch clash with Arsenal in the Premier League at Anfield. The boss talks on a number of topics including: the Reds' start to the new season, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's return to the first team following a lengthy knee injury. On the former Arsenal midfielder, Klopp also talks about him signing his new contract through to 2023. There's talk on exits too, with Dejan Lovren mentioned, the difference in the transfer window with it still open across Europe despite closing in the Premier League. Plus there's the German's thoughts on counterpart Unai Emery joking that he didn't want his side to come up against the European champions. 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

Good afternoon.

0:02.0

After what's being quite tough year in managing for Alex Oxley, Chamberlain,

0:06.0

it's a

0:08.0

and it's a soup of food as manual and now we get some new contract.

0:12.0

So how good does that be for him in terms of how you deal with him on the pitch?

0:16.7

Now is he up to 100% after that year out or do you still need to be a bit patient?

0:21.0

Well, I think it was a very, very, very good week for him of course and for all of us.

0:28.0

And when Alex is in a good shape it's good for L.C. that's how it is and we have to but still with these are the two weeks.

0:36.5

Now this week is already nearly gone but the next week as well where we have a full

0:41.7

week to train and that's what we have to do because after that we play all three days and that's what we try to do to make the players pretty much

0:51.6

fit for the rest of the season with proper sessions and then we have the two games but these two games are very very important obviously but not the only ones we have to play.

1:00.0

So Alex is I would say in the best shape I can remember because it's long ago that before he got injured and yeah looks all looks good is not only physically in a good shape

1:17.9

Mentally very good all that stuff. So yeah, and we we need him and so it's all like it would be

1:24.1

And you've touched upon it there well that full week that you've got between

1:27.6

Gains now so what have you been able to do with a full week of training that maybe you couldn't do before it and what impact can

1:35.0

that have?

1:37.0

We believe in training so we hope we can see the impact.

1:40.0

If we cannot see it tomorrow, then we should see it in the next couple of weeks it's like this

1:43.7

you worked on a lot of tactical stuff but you tactical work actually is always possible but you have kind of 20 minutes usually

1:50.7

and that's not really cool and so this week we had today yesterday and the day

1:58.0

before yesterday so three days where we could work pretty much where we could

2:01.0

work on everything which we thought we have to improve on it's all

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