Press Conference: Klopp on title decider, Champions League final, fitness of key quartet, and future of duo

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

For the final time this season, Jurgen Klopp was at Melwood this morning to preview a Premier League match. But this is no ordinary match. Should Liverpool beat Wolves at Anfield on Sunday, and City drop points at Brighton, they would be crowned Premier League champions, which would top off an already incredible week. It is a week, of course, that started with the unbelievable Champions League semi-final second-leg win over Barcelona, which is referenced throughout this must-listen press conference; the main news line from which is the fitness of Jordan Henderson, Andy Robertson, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino. Henderson and Robertson picked up injuries in the 4-0 victory over Barca but with Klopp revealing the mantra around the training ground as being ‘it’s only pain’, you’d expect them to be fit to face Wolves. The Reds boss has plenty praise for the Molineux men, and for Brighton, too, but he’s less impressed by the scheduling of the Nations League Finals. Klopp also has his say on the rush for Champions League final tickets and the high cost of travel to Madrid as well as giving short shrift to UEFA’s decision to stage the Europa League showpiece, which will be contested by two more Premier League clubs, in Baku. Speaking of which, Klopp is asked for his opinion on the domination of English outfits in Europe this season, which allows the Remainer to drop a Brexit joke. He’s also quizzed on the future of Alberto Moreno and Daniel Sturridge and the performance of Tottenham, who produced a miracle of their own to beat Ajax and set-up that Champions League final showdown with Liverpool. 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	If David, some of the described this week as the greatest week of football entertainment,
0:12.6	obviously someday.
0:13.9	It could be the culmination of that as well.
0:16.1	What are your thoughts?
0:18.4	Yeah, it would be good.
0:19.6	It was a week, I'm not sure of miracles, but of big football moments and from our point of view
0:26.0	there could be a big football moment for us as well on the weekend it would be nice.
0:30.4	The week is not over yet, so it's Sunday counts to this week, not to next week, so of course we go for that, but that's the only.
0:41.0	Nothing changed really. We knew it before. It's all good. I think most of the people
0:46.1	expected me to sit here today and say okay after not being in the Champions League final now
0:52.1	It's pretty difficult to become champion
0:54.0	now we are on the Champions League final it's still difficult to be a champion and
0:59.1	so that's how it is and but the only job the only thing we can do is to win the game.
1:07.0	And in this situation, obviously, it looks like wolves and Brighton are only like where they are there.
1:14.6	But city will win and we will win and then at the end city's champion.
1:17.4	But we have the game to play.
1:19.5	And wolves with ambitions because they showed the whole year real ambition they enjoyed
1:25.0	their football a seventh in an unbelievable competitive league from getting
1:31.2	promoted last year.
1:33.2	So it's pretty special.
1:34.7	They played wonderful, a lot of moments.
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