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Excellent start of the season overall, particularly coming into the second round of the Champions League group games,

how much of a concern though was Saturday in terms of the defensive frailties and

unusually for Liverpool a lack perhaps of defensive composure?

Yeah, it's not that much a concern because you can make, I don't think you should make these things bigger than they are, but we have to show reaction and that's for sure.

So I think it's really tricky to win a game, a football game when you are not defending on your highest

level.

That's what we didn't do.

I know in the common opinion it's always like we talked then about only the last line but it was not the only that problem we had in general a problem with without defending and that's why

Bradford caused us some problems.

And that's not good.

Porto is a different team, obviously.

We'll play a different style, but we'll go direct as well we'll go for second

balls as well so yeah we have to improve in that department for sure but it's not

not now the moment for being concerned or whatever it's we spoke about it obviously and we know we cannot do it like that. So I think we saw that that and we have to show that tomorrow. That's right.

You have plenty of experience of coming up against Porto in the Champions League,

and you've got a good record as well against them.

How different is this Porto side and the way they set up? How different is it to the last one you

faced? A Porto always changed a little bit because they have obviously coming players going

playing us out and coming players in still the same manager.

It's not an advantage at all that we won the last two games there.

Absolutely not because we only have to think yourself in the position

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