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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Press conference: Jurgen Klopp confirms Thiago, Matip and Keita to miss Midtjylland visit | Alisson on shoulder injury and return to team

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.4 β€’ 1000 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jurgen Klopp and Alisson Becker have been speaking with the media ahead of Liverpool's first Champions League game at Anfield for the new season. Klopp was up first, discussing a wideranging number of topics from the latest injury update on Thiago Alcantara, Joel Matip and Naby Keita, how Liverpool have responded to the Merseyside derby, coping without Virgil van Dijk and the model and style of FC Midtjylland ahead of Tuesday night's game. Throw-in coach Thomas Gronnemark, who has worked with both sides was also brought up, before Alisson was asked about his return from a shoulder injury. The Brazilian also spoke about his emotions at watching on last season as the Reds dropped out the Champions League and the recent heavy away defeat to Aston Villa in the Premier League. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc 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

Yergen, first of all, in the past week, obviously you've won your opening Champions League game you're now

0:13.2

level on points at the top of the Premier League as well but what's been the most

0:17.2

encouraging aspect what you've seen from your players in that time. Oh look the last week was not the best week of our lives let me say like this it

0:32.4

started with a really good football game

0:35.3

with some with some things which we obviously didn't like and which don't help and so then it's all about showing a reaction because you cannot influence the things

0:46.0

what happened to you in life, but you can influence the response to your show and I like the response.

0:50.4

To be honest, it was the boys were really ready to work extremely hard again

0:56.4

show real resilience, fighting for result, digging in all these kind of things which is important.

1:05.0

We would, I expect that actually, but after the very, very long, very good time we had

1:13.3

would send possible that that people react differently and my boys didn't

1:16.3

so that did exactly what I thought they will do

1:18.4

they fought as much as they could

1:20.3

and we won both games so that was the part I like most.

1:24.0

In terms of the squad as well yoga how are you looking at injury wise and I'm thinking

1:30.0

obviously Abby Kay T. Argo, Joelting. Are they available for Champions Week action this week?

1:35.0

Don't think so.

1:37.0

How long are you looking at for those three?

1:41.0

Oh, it's still what I said last week. We will look day by day, but it seems it looks like that it will, we need a few more days.

1:50.0

So for tomorrow night, they probably will not be ready.

1:53.8

Okay, fantastic.

1:54.8

We go to Ian for two questions or one question for sort sport and then we'll go through the list.

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