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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Press conference: Klopp gives Jordan Henderson hamstring update, reaction wanted against West Ham and 'cheeky' letter to Man Utd fan

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Soccer, Sports, Sports News

4.4979 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of Liverpool welcoming David Moyes' West Ham United to Anfield on Monday night, Jurgen Klopp has been holding his regular pre-match press conference. After being brought off due to a hamstring injury on Tuesday night, during the Champions League defeat to Atletico Madrid, Klopp confirmed captain Jordan Henderson is set for a three week injury lay-off. As well as that, the German was asked about the letter he sent to a young Manchester United fan who wrote to him. Plus Klopp gave his thoughts on West Ham after their defeat to Man City on Wednesday night whilst also explaining Sadio Mane's reaction to being substituted during Tuesday's game in Madrid. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/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

Can we start with Jordan Henderson?

0:13.6

Is there an update on his fitness?

0:15.6

Is there a fear that he could be out for a while?

0:18.2

Could you look to make changes

0:20.0

to your side piece Monday after the physical demands of Madrid?

0:26.5

Oh, Hendo is, it could have been worse.

0:31.3

So, I well know, it was a harm string and we heard of different harm string injuries

0:37.6

now around in the Premier League, obviously, for Harry Kane, for example, stuff like that.

0:43.0

It's not that bad, but he will be out, I think, for three weeks or so,

0:48.0

which is not cool, but how we see it, it's, we were still lucky and yeah that's it changes I could because apart from handle all the other

1:00.7

boys are fit but Tuesday Monday is absolutely no need to do it. That's enough time. That's longer than we usually have.

1:11.0

So we will see who would start and stuff like this and

1:14.2

maybe we'll make more changes but not because the article game.

1:17.5

Austin Wenger has said this week he wants to change marginal off-site decisions to favour the attacking team.

1:27.0

There's been a lot of controversy around VA heart this season.

1:30.0

Would you be in favor of that? I heard about it, what Arsen said,

1:36.6

he said, the daylight rule, right?

1:38.6

Kind of, he said, namely the daylight thing. Not sure about that, didn't think enough about that.

1:45.0

When we spoke with the coaches about it, we thought we could, what could make it easier as well,

1:50.4

that we just say as long as it's only whatever it is your toe your foot offside stuff like this

1:58.4

so outside apart from that it's not offside like go higher no armpits anymore no no no shoulders anymore

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