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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Press Conference: Jurgen Klopp and Virgil van Dijk preview Champions League clash with Porto

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The big games just keep coming for Liverpool. On Tuesday night Jurgen Klopp’s double-chasing side welcome Porto to Anfield for a Champions League quarter-final first-leg tie. And to preview the clash, Reds boss Klopp and his star defender Virgil van Dijk staged a press conference at Anfield. An upbeat Klopp was up first, and he spoke about what all these late crucial goals mean, Liverpool’s development as a European force under his watch, Mohamed Salah, last season’s showdown with Porto, and the latest on the fitness of Joe Gomez and Adam Lallana, among other things. Then it was the turn of van Dijk to face the media with the player-of-the-year contender discussing whether the Reds can win both the Premier League and Champions League, the response to being favourites on Tuesday night, how much the suspended Andy Robertson will be missed, and his thoughts on the next star-in-the-making to roll off the Porto production line.  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.

0:08.0

Yeogan, the team has been scoring a lot of late goals lately which is often seen as the side

0:13.7

of champions but does it signify something within the squad a determination

0:17.8

not to be denied this season?

0:20.8

Look it's normal that we talk about this I don't like to talk too much about it, but I like talk about

0:27.0

if we won the games and stuff like that, it looks like it was always lucky or whatever, because we scored late goals.

0:33.0

I would say that's against Tottenham of course the kind of goals will not score a lot of times

0:37.6

but even that was, I was that a routine from the from the training ground and of course lucky in the end

0:45.3

but it was completely different in Southampton it was not we have a late goals but

0:49.5

it went and the goals it was called the goals because we we played a lot better in the second half

0:54.6

than the first half and we adapted really well to the things what Southampton

0:58.4

for and then so I was really pleased with the second half and so we deserve that the win there but of course it shows

1:05.8

that we we are fully focused we this club never gave up and this team never gives up.

1:14.2

So that's how it is.

1:15.2

It's not about, you have to try and try and try and try and that's what we do in the moment

1:22.2

and using the good situation we are in but we know

1:25.3

and we know how difficult the situation is as well.

1:30.0

But it's good. We like it. We like it. We're looking forward to the to the challenges we are facing in the next in the next couple of weeks.

1:38.0

And so tomorrow night the tough on against Porto and hopefully we can use the good shape the boys are in the moment.

1:47.0

In your time here you've reached the finals of two major European Cup competitions.

1:52.0

I think... It's always when we were part of a European Cup competitions. I think...

1:53.0

It's right...

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