Press Conference: Klopp and Alisson preview Champions League showdown with Bayern - and respond to pundits

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The real action comes on Wednesday, but Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and goalkeeper Alisson Becker were at the Allianz Arena tonight to preview the huge Champions League last-16 second-leg showdown with Bayern Munich - and respond to pundits who feel the Reds would be better off going out of the competition in order to concentrate on winning the Premier League. In his exchanges with the English media, you will also hear Klopp talk about the balance his side must strike, their lack of goals from outside of the box, and what the travelling Kop can expect when they arrive in the ground. Alisson was asked about VAR, after Burnley's controversial opener at the weekend, his admiration for opposite number Manuel Neuer, what it's like to play for Klopp and behind the returning Virgil van Dijk, and his thoughts on facing the Champions League's leading goalscorer, Robert Lewandowski. 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.
0:10.0	Yergen, first of all, what reception are you expecting here from the home fans tomorrow night?
0:18.1	No I wow no idea really I that will not be a celebration as I don't think that anybody thinks about reception for me tomorrow
0:28.0	There's no no reason for it. I never had I never had any reception so I'm here here it's to come out and you prepare the team and then
0:37.8	you play football so there's no reception expected.
0:41.8	When son then take the view that this competition could harm your chances of winning the Premier League,
0:48.0	what worth do you see in the opposite argument to that that actually it could help build momentum towards that
0:55.2	end goal? I really don't think that any other coach in the world or manager in the world has to answer this question when you play Champions League.
1:07.0	I really think that's really unique.
1:09.0	It only happens if you are the Liverpool manager and the pundits come from Manchester United and start these things.
1:16.6	That's how it is.
1:17.6	I only can say that if we play this competition, you ask us after that when we went out in a FA-caro cup, stuff like that, if it's better for us like this,
1:26.7	we don't see it like this, we wanted to go through, but we didn't.
1:30.0	And this time we want to be focused on that game and even if it would harm us.
1:36.4	If we could not change it, the whole world watched this game tomorrow night.
1:41.0	If we go in and play on one and a half legs or what.
1:44.0	I wish that these the guys who write you down this question, whatever, that they try to prove
1:52.0	someday that it's possible to use the ideas in real life and not only in the studio.
2:01.0	That would help. I'm not angry about it's just it's so mad that you
2:04.1	can't be that I constantly get confronted with and on the other hand side it will build a
2:07.5	momentum yes if we play good football afterwards this game has nothing to do with anything else if we only stay in this
2:15.3	competition and we win it tomorrow night if you deserve to go through if we play
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