Press Conference: Klopp and Trent on Barcelona, Salah injury and Premier League title battle

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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So here we go. The start of a week that could end with Liverpool winning the Premier League and qualifying for their second straight Champions League final. Admittedly, the latter is more unlikely, given the Reds must overturn a 3-0 deficit in their semi-final second leg with Barcelona at Anfield on Tuesday. And their hopes have been hit further by the news that both Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino will be ruled out of the match, which was confirmed by Jurgen Klopp at his pre-match press conference on Monday afternoon. With that in mind, Klopp was asked how he was going to approach the last-four decider, as well as how much attention he will pay to Manchester City's crucial clash at home to Leicester City on Monday night, which if they drop points in, will leave Liverpool with one hand on the Premier League title. But most of the talk concerns Barcelona, the possible inspiration the Reds can take from Roma, and just what exactly Klopp said to Lionel Messi on the Camp Nou pitch at the end of the first leg. And, as is customary with Champions League press conferences, the Liverpool manager was followed by one of his players, Trent-Alexander Arnold, who was a fan in stands when Klopp's side produced a stunning European comeback to beat Borussia Dortmund three years ago. The 20-year-old right-back is asked whether the Reds can repeat that performance on Tuesday night, his friendly rivalry with Andy Robertson, the prospect of facing Messi, and courtesy of a question from our own James Pearce, what it will be like to go up against his former team-mate Philippe Coutinho. Enjoy - and we'll be back in the morning with the Blood Red podcast. 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	Yogan, can you give us an update on the fitness of Mo Sala and Roberto Fimino and with or without them what approach do you take to overturn the three gold deficit?
0:18.7	To both are not available for tomorrow. To approach, that we try to win the game the game,
0:30.0	that we try to win the game.
0:33.0	I thought that makes sense.
0:35.0	Look, the situation is with the three-nilled Barcelona is obviously not exactly the situation
0:41.0	you want to have before you play the second leg but when you cannot play against
0:45.1	Barcelona and and and tell the world watch this after 10 minutes we we are level and then we try to turn the round whatever that's not like this
0:56.2	so we try to we try to win the game and if the result we have at a specific moment give us an opportunity to go the next round.
1:04.6	I think we should try.
1:06.0	Until then, we just have to try to play it to win the game.
1:08.9	And that's the way how we will do it.
1:12.4	And together with our supporters this was a long season and
1:20.0	there's at least a little chance to make it even longer, but if not, then these are the last two home games of an incredible season.
1:28.0	I think we should celebrate it with a good performance on the pitch and with a very very good performance on the stand so that would be really nice
1:39.1	Obviously I have to ask you this as well because I appreciate the focus is on this game but how much
1:43.9	attention would you also pay to what's happening in the Premier League tonight
1:47.0	between Manchester City and Leicester and would you be as calm as you told as you were
1:51.1	watching the Manchester Derby? I will see.
1:55.0	I don't know, but we...
1:58.0	How much attention?
2:00.0	So I'm not sure if there's any other football game tonight on tell you maybe.
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