This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of the Blood Red European show.

I'm your host most Stewart and we as a Liverpool fan base are very much concentrated on

Portugal in Europe at the moment, seeing as the Champions Z draws

piz us against Benfica.

So I decided I'd like to talk to someone

who knows a little bit more about them than us

and all of you.

Alex Gontalves.

See, I tried and failed.

Alex from the Tuga Scout, the man of all things Portuguese football.

First of all, tell the world exactly how to pronounce your name after I butcher it.

But then after that let us... how to pronounce your name after I butcher it.

But then after that, let us know what the kind of

of Portuguese reaction was to this draw.

Are they very much of the idea that sad

that they draw one of the big hitters or looking forward to a kind of a glamatai.

It was not a bad attempt. I mean, gonsales, but you know, it was close. It was close enough.

I mean, I feel bad anyway.

I would say first and foremost for being fjefika it's it's a huge achievement just to get to this stage of the competition I mean to be able to knock out Barcelona in the group stage,

to then eliminate very highly regarded IAC side in the round of 16. To get to the quarterfinals is almost always the limit for

Portuguese clubs and to get to that point is is in itself a success. With regards to

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