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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

'They just want to hurt you': Adam Lallana on Liverpool v Real Madrid

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

I chatted with Adam Lallana recently, and the Brighton midfielder reflected on famous Real Madrid encounters from his Liverpool days. Ahead of the forthcoming clash of these giants, here’s a reminder of what Adam said about relentless Real and magnificent Modric.

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0:00.0

We were with Adam Lalana. Remember he was at Liverpool for a long time and is a veteran of three big clashes with the Reds and Real Madrid. That tie happens to be coming around again in the

0:27.7

Champions League. Adam talks us through how relentless Madrid are in their ability to hurt teams and to hurt teams

0:35.2

at exactly the right time the opponent doesn't want it, exactly the moment when there's a mistake. And whenrich, yeah look at Modrich, in Adam's view is

0:46.6

pound for pound the best midfielder in the world. You know it's not about fate, draws happen. But like you spent a lot of time in your career, you put Spain a lot, you

1:06.8

played Madrid a lot, a teammate of yours from the If a Youth Cup 2005 went and became pretty legendary that Garif Beals just retired or just announced his retirement.

1:16.2

You went to a tour with a player that you really admire in terms of Modrich.

1:21.6

What was it like consistently facing Spain, scoring against them, playing real Madrid in terms of that real mix of things about your grandfather or your grandmother was English

1:34.3

nonetheless she was married to Spaniard I don't know if the family generally had a team

1:38.2

whether it was or wasn't Madrid or let's your bus or not what but over the period you've carried the Spanish English flag into

1:45.4

into battle into competition too with some sore nights too.

1:51.0

Some sore moments you're talking about Bale there is over-head kick.

1:55.4

I've seen it a few times yesterday when it was announced on my...

1:59.4

You reaching for the off, the off, the over-head kick. but I look back there and I think you've beaten by

2:05.9

Madrid you know have won the Champions League five times in the last seven eight years

2:10.0

not to say that I'm proud of losing to Madrid if there's a team to lose to

2:15.7

it's Madrid the legacy and the history around around the club and I hope one stage in my career in my life takes me to Spain with my wife's listening on a more permanent basis.

2:30.0

Because I feel like not that I've got unfinished business that I because I've not started anything in Spain but I do feel like at some point in in my career within football not playing whether it's coaching, that I'm going to be there

2:44.7

in some capacity working.

2:46.7

You've been careful and how you expressed it so I'm going to help you a little bit by saying,

2:50.1

when it's been first in 1982 for the World Cup I just went on the lash let's have a month there I'm here as a Scotland man I can't even tell you most of the things that went on

3:00.1

But I crossed it and I'm sharing this because you were being careful about expressing almost like there's not a voice calling to me but I feel or something as we crossed from France to Spain via train and in those days the gauge of the rails didn't meet so

3:15.0

you had to stop at Iran until they switched the gauge of the rails that you could carry on.

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