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00:00So, Alexander Isak starts for Liverpool. The headline and the answer to the big, big question, the 125 million pound man at Anfield career starts tonight.
00:12He's one of three changes, replacing Hugo Ekotike up front, elsewhere Jeremy Fringpong and Andy Robertson both start.
00:19Robertson's first start of the season, Kirk Essel Macau has the dropout.
00:22Dominic Saboslai plays his 50th game in Europe and his 100th for Liverpool.
00:27No English starters in a European game for Liverpool for the first time in club history.
00:37The referee tonight is Maurizio Mariani from Italy and the captain's Virgil van Dijk of Liverpool and Jan Oblak of Atletico Madrid.
00:47Julian Alvarez misses out for Atletico Madrid tonight. He's injured and back in between.
00:59And club captain Koke starts on the bench. England international Conor Gallagher starts in midfield.
01:05And Chacobo Raspardori, partners Antoine Griezmann up front. It's a milestone night for the Frenchman.
01:11His 450th game for the club. Jan Oblak, 50 better. Tonight he plays for Atletico Madrid for the 500th time.
01:20Liverpool have had some great strikers. Dalglish, Rush, Fowler and Owen to name just four.
01:32Alexander Isak starts his Liverpool journey tonight and hopes to eventually be mentioned in the same sentence one day.
01:38Milestone night for two of Atletico Madrid's all-time greats, the keeper Jan Oblak and the striker Antoine Griezmann.
01:53So Liverpool's Champions League opener is here, their 50th season of European football.
01:58And as always, on nights like this, Anfield is raring to go. Good evening, Ali McCoy.
02:05Good evening, Gallant. Very much looking forward to this one.
02:08Well, it's a special place at the best of the teams, but European nights has just got a different smell to it, hasn't it?
02:17So there's the roar, there's the first long ball forward by Virgil van Dijk looking for Alexander Isak
02:23and the first defending on that side for Javier Gallan.
02:30Here's Connick to Bosley.
02:34And an early touch here for Ryan Gravenberg.
02:36Four Dutchmen, by the way, starting in the Liverpool team.
02:39No Englishman, the only English player on the pitch tonight is Conor Gallagher.
02:43Connick finding a bit of space away from Antoine Griezmann and then picking out three partners back in the team.
02:59Now Mo Salah involved for the first time.
03:01Just showed a little bit too much of that to Gallagher,
03:08and concedes the first free kick.
03:10So this is the first of eight league-phase nights for Arna Slott.
03:14Liverpool trips to Istanbul, Milan, Frankfurt and Eindhoven are ahead for them.
03:18The team that topped the table last season, even if it didn't really offer much of an advantage in the end.
03:24And they're right up there again with the fancied teams to win this Champions League.
03:29Yeah, and it's settled for that, wouldn't they perform in seven out of eight wins?
03:32Won all four at home.
03:34Particularly impressive performance, I think we're here for the Real Madrid, getting the win 2-0.
03:38The four home games in aggregate are ten and one, so clearly, as we all know,
03:43it can be quite an intimidating place.
03:47Ibrahim Canate.
03:54Sorry, just the first thing, I'm looking at the shape of Atlético Madrid.
03:58Simeone's dropping back, it's almost a five when they're out of possession.
04:02And Raspadori is dropping into a four in the middle of the park.
04:06The only reason they've only got 11 behind the ball is that he can't pick 12,
04:09that's gonna be the tactic tonight, isn't it?
04:11For Simeone, Gravenberg, upended, pre-kick.
04:14A little bit clumsy, wasn't it, Clement Longley?
04:19Yeah, he was.
04:23Watch the touch, he knows the tackle's coming in.
04:26Lifts up the undercarriage, free kick.
04:37There's the man in black, Diego Simeone,
04:39he'll celebrate 14 years in charge of Atlético Madrid in December,
04:43the outfit never changes, the passion never leaves him.
04:45If you walk down an alleyway with him,
04:47you'd be pretty confident you'd come out the other side, wouldn't you?
04:53Agreed.
04:56You wouldn't want to meet him coming the other way, though.
04:58He could have a row in an empty room, there's no doubt about that.
05:01So, Florian Pertz and Mo Salah over the Liverpool free kick,
05:05first organising tonight for Jan Oblak to do.
05:10We have an early opportunity here at the Anfield road end for Liverpool.
05:15What does it do?
05:17More!
05:184, 4, 3...
05:195, 4, 3...
05:215, 6, 4...
05:235, 6, 6...
05:255, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6...
05:265, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 9, 8, 8.
05:27Mo Salah went low, took it, he clutched it in!
05:45Well, Andy Robertson's going to claim it.
05:50First time he's started this season,
05:53and he's gone and backed himself a goal inside four minutes.
05:56There's an element of fortune, there's nothing that Oglac can do,
06:00but Liverpool will take it.
06:02It's their first Champions League goal of the season,
06:05and on a night when you want to get off to a good start,
06:07that's the perfect way to do it.
06:09You're right, there is an element of fortune, but I'll tell you what,
06:12he starts at an offside position behind the wall,
06:14look, and then he runs out, I was watching him,
06:17gets himself well onside, balls fired at him.
06:22Not sure he knows an awful lot about it.
06:26Does it come off him or does it come off the defender?
06:29It's an interesting one.
06:30It might be the defender, I'm not sure.
06:36Anyway, what a start for Liverpool.
06:38Well, I'll tell you what, if it is the defender,
06:40he's very good at faking it, isn't he, Andy Robertson,
06:42because he's gone off to take the adulation of his teammates.
06:54So they're crediting it to Robertson at the moment,
06:57and he has scored tonight, his first Champions League goal in almost six years,
07:01the only other one he got was against Salzburg back in October of 2019.
07:06It's been a while.
07:11Now, we do think it has gone enough for Andy Robertson,
07:13we're going to try and clear it up, but whichever way you look at it,
07:15Liverpool have the lead.
07:23Well, that's a bonus, no Englishman in the Liverpool series,
07:25at least the Scotsman scored there, that's a bonus.
07:28I'm not surprised you've made that point.
07:30So 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield in full voice, and Kanata in possession,
07:34and they haven't really had a touch of the ball yet, Atletico Madrid.
07:37They've not, they've not.
07:44That's right, Gravenberg, and then running in is Mo Salah,
07:46great balance, great finish, great finish!
07:52Wonderful balance from Mo Salah, and look at the celebrations.
07:58The goal inevitable.
08:04Salah scores his 45th goal in the Champions League for Liverpool,
08:07nobody's got more than him.
08:09Liverpool in dreamland inside six minutes,
08:13and Simeone's got the weight of the world on his shoulders, 2-0.
08:17Darren, this is magnificent, it's all about the weight of the return pass to him,
08:23and the use of Salah's body.
08:24First of all, great overlap from Frimpong, allows him to come inside.
08:29This is the pass there, beautiful, look at his body strength there,
08:32puts himself between the two defenders, and once he gets in that position,
08:36you know he's finishing.
08:37Opens it up, and the rest is easy for him.
08:40What a goal, great goal.
08:42Well, I spoke about milestones tonight, the number of games for Griezmann and for Oblak,
08:47that's the 250th goal in English football for Mo Salah, so it's a milestone and nobody
08:54has done it better in recent times in Liverpool Red than him.
08:59It's brilliant, isn't it? I mean, the move itself, the one-two, the give-and-go,
09:03and then he puts his body in front, uses his strength, and once he does that,
09:06you just know there's nobody better in that position.
09:10Composure, all great finishers have done a little bit of composure,
09:14I keep saying it at the final minute, and he just showed it there.
09:17Well, if you like this kind of thing, two minutes and six seconds between the goals,
09:23here's Antoine Griezmann, the first time they've had the ball,
09:26and Atletico Madrid get themselves a corner at the cop end,
09:29but you can't start a Champions League league phase any better than they've done tonight, Liverpool.
09:34A remarkable start, absolutely remarkable.
09:38If the first one might have had a hint of fortune, the second one was brilliant.
09:43So the centre-backs, Lenormand and Longlay have gone up there,
09:50and that's straight forward for Alisson.
09:56Liverpool, you sense, have a real taste for it tonight.
10:01Sir Bosley powering through, and that's good defending and important defending
10:05for Atletico Madrid by Conor Gallagher.
10:07Yeah, but it was slack.
10:10It was, it's ruined in with Gallagher, it was a slack pass.
10:14With a lot of momentum on that attack there, Liverpool.
10:22Well, it's the ninth game between the teams who last met in 2021,
10:25both teams have three wins apiece, and Atleti had one here,
10:29it was the final game before lockdown in 2020 when the Spaniards scored three goals in extra time
10:34to knock Liverpool out, but that feels like a long time ago, the way that Liverpool have started.
10:38Lovely turn there by Ryan Gravenberg, and the free kick conceded by Conor Gallagher.
10:43There's so much confidence in the Liverpool team.
10:45What a take it is from Gravenberg.
10:45Look at the take here, let's sit through on a beautiful touch.
10:52Normal circumstances, it's a yellow card, but what a turn, what a turn.
10:55Ibrahima Camate, Dominic Siposlai, they're so deep Atletico Madrid,
11:10it's just allowing Liverpool to do what they like with them at the moment.
11:13There's Cody Gakpo, and now Robertson.
11:22Is there any sympathy tonight for Hugo Ekotique, the fact that he's on the bench?
11:25Oh, yes, yes, but I would imagine he better get used to it a little bit.
11:33Eyes make one or two others, eyes make one or two others.
11:36Florian Virts finds a bit of space, Esak then slightly heavy on the fallback towards Ryan Gravenberg,
11:42but I think everything Esak does tonight they'll applaud in here.
11:45Yeah.
11:49Here we see it.
11:50So it's Robertson on to the defender, so you will give it to Robertson based on that.
11:57I'm taking a good spot for it hitting the defender though, no?
12:00Oh, yeah. Listen, you don't miss much.
12:02I can't say the same about myself, but you don't miss much.
12:05No, that man's getting the goal.
12:10I wouldn't be allowed back Norfolk Carlyle if I didn't give him it.
12:12That's it, Giuliano Simeone, so understandably Dad Diego not happy.
12:23The arm comes across, doesn't it?
12:32It's his 744th game with the Athletic head coach tonight,
12:36not surprising the most ever for a coach at the club,
12:39he's won seven major trophies during his time in Madrid.
12:44This team are in an early hole here though, against Liverpool.
12:54Nicolas Gonzalez, and now Pablo Barrios.
12:57I must say I was a bit surprised when Koke's name wasn't in the team,
13:01just for that experience away from home.
13:05I was too though.
13:10Turned around the corner.
13:14Llorente and the free kick is going to be given to Atletico Madrid for the foul by Subosla.
13:19Nice pass as a player down the right-hand side from Atletico there,
13:23lovely ball as you said around the corner from McGregor.
13:28McGregor, Gallagher, where McGregor came from?
13:30You've got Scots on the right, the fact that Robertson scores completely scrambled you.
13:43You took the one to hit my move.
13:46Florian Burns for Liverpool, that ran into Conor Gallagher over there,
13:49Conor McGregor, tell me where you want to do it.
13:51I think we've won all now after the bandage fiasco with Bilbao last night.
14:01I'll give you that, an equaliser, I'll give you that, no harm than that.
14:03Yeah.
14:05They have struggled against English teams in recent times, Atletico Madrid.
14:10Yeah.
14:11They've only won one of their last eight against English opposition,
14:14Liverpool were perfect in the league phase at Anfield in this competition last season.
14:19I'll tell you Fletch, they're 2-0 victory at the weekend aside, they've had a poor start really, two points in three games.
14:30Just starting to see slightly more of the ball, having been swamped early on by Liverpool.
14:36Salah providing the pressure, Oblak launching the ball away,
14:41Virgil van Dijk pushing it down to Robertson.
14:44Yeah, well that would suit Liverpool all day, wouldn't it?
14:46Fogel likes when they kick it long.
14:51Two centre-backs, Van Dijk and Canati will mop it up.
14:53There's the birthday boy, Arnest Slott, his first Champions League defeat as a coach was against Atletico Madrid
14:59when he was the Feyenoord manager in October 2023.
15:03His side off to the perfect start tonight with the Robertson goal and then the Salah goal, here's Subotlai.
15:09Showing great energy in central midfield already tonight, the Hungarian.
15:12Isak, little step over, sliding the ball in, Gallagher was there,
15:16Gakpo trying to turn, and in the end they can get it away through Nicolas Gonzalez,
15:22and it's a good run by him, although Van Dijk across to use the shoulder to great effect.
15:27Thou shall not pass, said Virgil van Dijk.
15:31Great strength, wasn't it?
15:33Jeremy Frimpop, over goes Jeremy Frimpop, no foul, referee was right there.
15:41He's not having it at ref, is he?
15:42Again, we saw it last night, nothing we saw a referee that was willing to let things go,
15:50and we enjoyed that performance, so if we get to see him again tonight we'll have no complaints.
15:56This is Javier Gallagher, who's starting at left back, and now Conor Callagher.
16:03Anfield in full voice.
16:04Anfield in full voice.
16:26Room for Gallagher to run into, and he's got Gonzalez ahead of him here.
16:29Good touch, wasn't it?
16:46Alexander Rizak tonight becomes the second Swedish player to play for Liverpool,
16:50the previous one, Glenn Hussein, who you've played against at Italia 90, I'm told.
16:54Absolutely.
16:59He's going absolutely berserk down there, Simeone, Griezmann takes the corner,
17:04Van Dijk heads it away, doesn't take a great deal to get the fuse running down, does it?
17:09No.
17:15Antoine Griezmann's crossed, and that's straight into the gloves of Alisson.
17:20Just looking at the value of the centre-half there that goes and attacks.
17:27Cross balls, Van Dijk, brilliant there.
17:29This is Giacomo Raspidori, it's his first start tonight for Atletico Madrid, so a big night for him.
17:50Liverpool pouncing on that little wax clay from Atletico Madrid, and now Giacomo,
18:00that's Lenormand, the Spanish international who came across and won it back, and now Griezmann's away.
18:05What a lovely little pass that was from Florian, but it's a fabulous little pass, couldn't have been any more than a foot to tell you the truth.
18:17Raspidori plays it here to Simeone.
18:26That's Tain from the Italian international.
18:33This might interest you, Ali, it's the fastest Liverpool have ever scored two goals in a European game.
18:39They've never been two up this early in any European match in club history.
18:42They've come flying out the blocks, don't they?
18:48Absolutely.
18:50I must say, the way that Salah took that goal was so impressive, wasn't it?
18:53The way he showed his strength and balance.
18:55He knew, he knew.
18:56It's just a perfect example of a forward putting a body in front of the defender, protecting the ball to allow him the finish.
19:03Simeone threads it in, Gallagher then delivers a good cross and there was only Frimpong in there,
19:09Raspidori with the lay-off and eventually away by Gravenberg, but not a great deal wrong with the build-up play there from Atletico Madrid.
19:16And a lovely little ball from Gallagher, wasn't it?
19:19They're polar opposites, aren't they, those two?
19:31I mean, he's as cool as a cucumber, isn't he, aren't a slot most of the time,
19:33and then Simeone's like a bottle of fizzy pop that you've been shaking up for ten minutes.
19:39Yeah, you're not wrong.
19:40Both excellent at a job, mind.
19:48Absolutely.
19:49It's Ryan Gravenberg.
20:09I don't think this caught the eye from a Liverpool's perspective apart from the goals.
20:13It's the running through midfield of Subozlai tonight, full of energy and power in there.
20:19Yeah, he's got a lot of freedom to do that, hasn't he?
20:24Particularly the way that Atletico Madrid have set up, Dan, allow him to do that.
20:32Looked like it's straight to Frimpong.
20:41Here's Ryan Gravenberg and now Subozlai.
20:49over here now.
20:55Robertson.
21:07obvious.
21:07Florian Wurtz, Isak onto Gakpo, the collision with Lenormand.
21:19The defending done down there by Llorente, scored twice the last time he came here.
21:25Two goals that eventually saw Liverpool go out.
21:30He's the right-back in this very defensively set-up Atletico Madrid team,
21:38they had the opportunity to counter there if Raspidori could have gone on to it,
21:41but Gravenberg, as he does so well for Liverpool, was able to pick up the pieces.
21:45He just got a little bit of a fright, didn't he?
21:47Because he thought he had a centre-back behind them.
21:50He had to react to that, but he didn't, but he did well.
22:00Approaching 20 minutes, it's Diogo Jota's song that's being sung by everybody inside Atfield.
22:11Never far from the Liverpool supporters' thoughts.
22:18Cody Gakpo.
22:21Here it goes from Robertson.
22:22Nice touch as well from the Atletico Madrid fans who are torn at this moment as well.
22:27That's excellent from Sobrizay again.
22:33He just comes a blind side of Griezmann there,
22:36a dispossession of great switch of play also.
22:39Salah, cutting in, hitting the shuttle!
22:42Lyman!
22:43He was at full stretch O'Black and how many times down the years
22:47have we seen Salah cut in like that and find the top corner?
22:50This is the angle here.
22:51That's brilliant.
22:53And you and I, let's not get everybody on, you and I were saying he's a required start to the season.
22:59Well, I was about to say that.
23:01There's been a bit of lethargy about his play, I think.
23:04He's been on the outside looking in, but tonight it seems like he's got that real desire to stamp himself on this match.
23:11I don't think we're wrong saying it, to be quite honest here, but he certainly started this opening 20 minutes or so.
23:17Completely different.
23:19There goes Llorente, played it now to Simeone.
23:23Defending them there by Canate, who came from one side to the other to block it.
23:27Jorge Burt's beaten to the ball by Pablo Barrios.
23:35No!
23:36No!
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23:56By Conor Gallagher.
23:57Llorente.
23:58Lovely touch inside the area by Simeone, and he pulled it back to it!
24:01Lovely touch inside the area by Simeone, and he pulled it back to what he thought
24:06was gonna be a good area, but Canate was there again.
24:09Didn't half kill the ball inside the post, though, didn't he?
24:12Superb touch, and a good ball, he cuts it back towards the penalty spot.
24:17Canate's all over it, but what a lovely touch.
24:20Then he got another look at it, Llorente plays the ball in.
24:23That's a fabulous touch, it really is.
24:31And Chelsea are a goal down in Munich against Bayern,
24:35Trevor Chalabar with an O goal, Gravenberg building up ahead of steam,
24:39that was a clean tackle, though, to dispossess him.
24:42Very impressive break from Gravenberg, it really was.
24:56That's in behind Robertson, and Simeone on the ball again,
25:00and he pulls it back here to Griezmann, Griezmann with the touch,
25:03Gravenberg the defender, and that was on its way towards Gonzalez in the middle
25:08before Liverpool dealt with it.
25:09That's poor, I'm telling you, it's poor, the ball's got to get across earlier.
25:12It really has.
25:14Gonzalez was coming into the back post, he got goalsider Frimpong,
25:18who perhaps just nodded off.
25:20Wrong option.
25:22Galan taking on Frimpong, and that was defended well by Jeremy Frimpong for Liverpool.
25:29He's been some player, hasn't he, for Atletico Madrid, Antoine Griezmann,
25:43450th game for the club tonight, he's got 198 goals for them.
25:49And it's a team-headed by Clement Longway that was easily dealt with by Alisson.
26:07Simeone's been the bright spot, hasn't he, down this side, for Atletico Madrid.
26:12He's only 22, he plays for Argentina.
26:15Born in Rome, when his dad Diego was at Lazio, raised in Argentina.
26:20And he started well down the right-hand side, good delivery from him.
26:24Do you think Dad put any pressure on him in terms of what nation to play for?
26:29Every chance.
26:31Every chance.
26:32Pomek Alligat, defended there by Van Dijk.
26:35I don't think it would have been a discussion, that's for certain.
26:40He'd be a brave lad, wouldn't he, Simeone Junior, if he said,
26:43you know what, Dad, I might play for Italy.
26:44Argentina through and through.
27:02Liverpool defending a proud record on opening night here at Anfield.
27:05They've never lost an opener on this pitch in the Champions League,
27:07it's the eighth time that they've started their campaign at home
27:11and they're off to a really good start with 25 minutes play.
27:17Offensive header in there for Isak, and then back in by Llorente,
27:20and now there is the possibility of a break if Frimpong could get there,
27:24but that was good defending by Pablo Barrios.
27:29Now Griezmann, just settled down a bit now, Atletico Madrid,
27:33taking the game a little bit to Liverpool and asking one or two questions.
27:36González has to be special to beat Alisson from there.
27:55Let's have a look at this goal again, Ali, because he took it brilliantly.
27:59Yeah, but look at the giving and go, the pass here, that into the area.
28:06Then he uses his body superbly well, and when he opens it up,
28:10you just know that's his finish.
28:13Low across the face of the goalkeeper, side foot away from him.
28:17Magnificent, it really is.
28:19Coming in off that side, a little give and go.
28:21He's got a number of Champions League and European records for Liverpool,
28:28and he's moved a step nearer another one tonight.
28:30He's now second overall all-time for games played in the Champions League for Liverpool.
28:35He's gone past Steven Gerrard, only Jamie Carragher is ahead of him,
28:39and he should pass Carragher barring injury this season.
28:41I think he's six behind as it stands.
28:43Remarkable, isn't it? It is, yeah.
28:45It's not just the output, it's the longevity as well, isn't it?
28:51Correct.
28:59If you heard a loud bang, that might well have been Ali's chair just moving in a manner that he didn't want it to.
29:06Are you OK? The good news is I'm fine, let's carry on.
29:09OK.
29:10He's said there'll be that incident in the Bertha, I feel.
29:21So 2-0 to Liverpool, those two early goals inside seven minutes,
29:25the first one for Robertson via the deflection and then the Salah goal that we've just showed you.
29:33I would make the point as well that he justifies his place in the team,
29:36I don't think Kerkhez has started particularly well, so Robertson back in on merit.
29:41I'm not surprised to see him in there at all,
29:43because you can guarantee one thing about Andy Robertson,
29:47the fact of the matter is when he's out of the team he will be training his socks off to get back into that side,
29:52and he's probably there on merit because Kerkhez really hasn't gone yet.
29:56Galan just a fraction quicker there than Mo Salah.
30:05This is Gallagher.
30:11Trying to slip that in behind for Simeone's run.
30:14Alisson looking to give Salah one to chase, but long lay was across, then Isak.
30:27But it's good play and it's different.
30:30The switch, mix up a little bit, he goes long, he forces the defender to go back,
30:35make a header, then the important thing is picking up the next ball, and they do that.
30:39I've said it for a long, long time, the one thing about Liverpool,
30:46yes they can pass the ball with some great footballers,
30:49but the mix up as well is not better than Andy, I think, Dan.
30:53Bayern Munich have doubled their lead, so Bayern Munich two, Chelsea nil,
30:57Harry Kane with a penalty, Trevor Chalabar with the own goal,
31:00so tough night so far in Munich for Chelsea.
31:04Just back to Isak, I think the big question tonight is how long he plays.
31:07Arnest Lott said 45 minutes, maybe a bit more.
31:10So, with the Merseyside derby to come at the weekend,
31:12and we'll bring you that game on TNT Sports,
31:14it'll be fascinating to see how long he leaves him out there tonight.
31:17Well, it's an interesting one, there's discussions before the game,
31:19whether we thought he would start or come off the bench.
31:24Thought he'd start and maybe got an hour, 55 minutes.
31:27Gallagher plays it out there to Nicolas Gonzalez,
31:37who's sent in the cross which Canate heads away.
31:44Supported now on that side by Javier Galland.
31:47Griezmann, first time in, it wasn't bad, again from Griezmann, was it?
31:51It's a great ball.
31:53The thing that was important about the defence, it was right on centre-forward,
31:57I think about even Raspidori when it came in,
31:59but it's a lovely little ball from Griezmann.
32:01They'll miss Alvarez tonight, of course, he's such an important player for them.
32:05Yeah, of course.
32:10Cole Palmer scored for Chelsea, so 2-1 now, so goals are plenty in Munich so far tonight.
32:14Chelsea were two down, but Cole Palmer, a minute after the Harry Kane penalty, has made it 2-1.
32:19For credit to Atletico Madrid, I mean, they could have buckled, having gone 2-0 down after six minutes,
32:34but since that goal, they've had more of the ball than Liverpool.
32:36Yeah, they have.
32:37They've weathered the storm, there's no doubt about that, having said that,
32:42Liverpool still have seen the dangers as we're about to see.
32:45Isak to Salah, Isak's been caught, Salah hits it!
32:48And Ogilak saves it, the concern, though, is this challenge on Isak,
32:52and he's in quite a bit of pain, as you can see.
32:54Nah, he gets one, doesn't he?
33:01It's one of these balls, when it breaks to him here, he knows, he knows he's got to get it,
33:10and he's got to get it first, but he knows he's going to collect one at the same time.
33:13That's exactly what happens, just gets here first and the tackle comes in.
33:19Le Normand, I think it is, yep.
33:21Stands on his right foot, doesn't he?
33:24It's a challenge that led to a yellow card for Robin Le Normand,
33:28who was a teammate of Isak's at Real Sociedad,
33:31so maybe they weren't exactly buzzing buddies in the dressing room.
33:34Forgot about that.
33:35Yeah.
33:36Just to confirm that we've got Liverpool against Everton for you from 11 o'clock on Saturday morning,
33:47TNT Sports 1, we'll start with early kick-off, you can see it on Discovery Plus as well.
33:52What about tomorrow night, St James's Park, Newcastle against Barcelona from 7 o'clock,
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34:03as City take on Napoli.
34:06The game's available on Discovery Plus as well.
34:09Here's Griezmann for Atletico Madrid, and now Simeone,
34:12and there's Dominic Saboslay for Liverpool.
34:22Very much looking forward to tomorrow night, that's going to be quite some atmosphere at St James's, isn't it?
34:26What a week you and I have had.
34:28Lorente with the pass, Raspidori trying to cross it.
34:34Saboslay working hard defensively again there for Liverpool.
34:40That's a foul on Mo Salah.
34:41Well, again, it's great use of the body.
34:43The ball's in the air coming up to you on Fletch, and look, he just backs in,
34:46gets himself out a little bit of a half-yard, comes off to take it, and then he's fouled, isn't he?
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35:23It's a different athletic team these days, the rock-solid defence is no more.
35:36That absolute desire under Simeone that you won't pass.
35:40I mean, they still tactically play in a very similar manner, but they've just not got the characters and the personnel that they had to really make it work.
35:48Well, they were brilliant at it, weren't they?
35:51I'm not sure they were too easy in the eye, I've got to say, Dan, but they were very, very effective at what they did.
35:57Good enough to win them a couple of La Liga titles and a couple of appearances in Champions League finals.
36:02Gravenberg on towards Isak, breaks now for Canate.
36:05In it goes to Frimpong who can charge towards the byline and win Liverpool the corner.
36:11I would also suggest you extremely unlucky notice.
36:16He's given a penalty. He's given a penalty.
36:20He's given a penalty for a handball against Clement Longline.
36:23And I wonder whether the assistant gave that you know.
36:34Give us your judgement here, Ali.
36:36You really want me to tell you?
36:40Yeah.
36:41Go on with the game.
36:42I know.
36:45I'm not even sure it hits his hand, does it?
36:47I mean, that's absolute nonsense, just go on with the game.
36:49Marco Di Dello is the video assistant.
36:54That's actually embarrassing.
36:56Yeah.
36:57Yeah.
36:58I mean, that's shocking.
37:01I'm guessing that somebody's spoken to the referee.
37:04Has to.
37:05Right.
37:06So somebody has...
37:07I don't know.
37:08He's got to look at it, surely.
37:14I mean, there is absolutely nothing that Longlay can do there.
37:17So I'm suggesting that somebody has...
37:19Has the referee made a clear and obvious error there?
37:23Well, I think he probably has.
37:26And by the way, he's got to come and have a look.
37:31Sense may well prevail.
37:32I would hope so.
37:34I'm fascinated to see where it actually hit.
37:36Who's seen?
37:37I mean, does it barely glance his film?
37:40I'm not sure.
37:41Yeah, time to do the decent thing, no penalty.
37:48Absurd idea in the first place.
37:52But do you know the bizarre and worrying thing is...
37:56Our VAR system, but I mean, the threshold is so much higher
38:00in the Premier League than the Champions League, so...
38:02That one in Paris last year will never be beaten.
38:04Was it last year?
38:05Yeah, the year before, yeah.
38:06Never be beaten.
38:07It's a corner to Liverpool, and they've got Canarte and Van Dijk in there.
38:23Corner taken by Florian Virts, and Van Dijk was running at that.
38:26It was an important header by Gonzalez.
38:28Good header, wasn't it? Good defensive header.
38:30He's back on the ball now.
38:32Giving it away, though, to Ryan Gravenberg, and now Dominic Suboslai.
38:37Just about to ask you the question, if it was a Liverpool penalty,
38:43would you let Isak take it to get a goal?
38:46Whether I would let him take it is one thing, but I don't think Salah would let him take it.
38:51Yeah.
38:52It's all right, me letting him take it up here, but I don't think Mo Salah would let him take it.
38:57Well, I think you're probably right.
38:58Lovely football from Liverpool, it's Cody Gatpo.
39:03Dominic Suboslai wanted somebody to his right there just to keep it moving, didn't he?
39:09Yeah, he did.
39:10He certainly did.
39:12So again that's that, Oblak forced into the kick which is just...
39:25Lovely touch by Salah to Florian Virts, decent defending over there by Javier Galland.
39:31Just suits the two Liverpool centre-backs again.
39:34Outside in the boot from Antoine Griezmann.
39:56Little stub of the toe from Raspardori.
40:00Yeah but from Brent Jouk.
40:01Dang.
40:02That's good.
40:03You ones you know?
40:05Yeah!
40:06All right, let's go all right.
40:07No!
40:08Yeah!
40:09No!
40:10Yeah!
40:11All right, let's go all right!
40:13All right, Nico!
40:14Yeah!
40:15Yeah!
40:16Let's go all right, Nico!
40:17Yeah!
40:19Yeah!
40:20That's going on!
40:22Oh no, go, eh.
40:23Yeah!
40:24Oh no, go, no, go!
40:26Let's go!
40:27Well, go, go, go!
40:28Clips it forward like that, effortlessly, doesn't he, Van Dijk?
40:33Hardly any back lift whatsoever.
40:35Fantastic ball, that's an obstruction for you, surely.
40:38Oh, he's not going out, is he?
40:39I'm a little bit disappointed that Gakpo went looking for it,
40:42because he got the full-back in a really good position there.
40:44I still think it'll make him in a free kick.
40:46Here's Birch, in it goes to Isak, who looks to turn and shoot!
40:52Well, that's his first attempt in Liverpool Red.
40:55No back lift required.
40:59You see another look at this, takes it in the half-turn.
41:03Nah, don't mind that, you know, just gets out of his feet.
41:06He's not got a lot of room to play with, still on his feet, see what he's trying to do.
41:10That lack of back lift is Fowler-esque. Having said that, Robbie would have hit the target.
41:14There's Salah, he hits the target, and it's saved by Oblak.
41:19Big smile on his face.
41:22He just tried to redirect it, didn't he, I think, to the goalkeeper's top right-hand corner.
41:27Straight at him.
41:29Boy, he's crossed on that side of the pitch.
41:32That's a scoreline that makes good reading to Liverpool.
41:39Liverpool two, has he go Madrid nil, those two early goals from Robinson and Salah.
41:44Gravenberg.
41:45Confidence from Canate, applause as well from his captain Van Dijk, who had time to clap before the ball got there, what about that for a touch?
41:49His first.
41:50And now Gakpo.
41:51Isak was the target.
41:52Space now for Ryan Gravenberg.
41:53Liverpool and Liverpool.
41:54Little step over from Sir Bosley, but it's well-read by Galland.
41:56But the Hungarian team, he's got a goal.
41:57That's a scoreline that makes good reading for Liverpool.
41:58Liverpool two, as he go Madrid nil.
41:59Those two early goals from Robinson and Salah.
42:01Gravenberg.
42:02Confidence from Canate, applause as well from his captain Van Dijk, who had time to clap before the ball got there.
42:11What about that for a touch?
42:12His first.
42:13And now Gakpo.
42:14Isak was the target.
42:16Space now for Ryan Gravenberg and Liverpool.
42:19Little step over from Sir Bosley, but it's well-read by Galland.
42:22But the Hungarian straight there, and running still, and providing the cross, which is cleared away by Robin Lenormand.
42:33Robertson.
42:35Berts.
42:37Isak.
42:38Space.
42:39Shot.
42:40Saved by Oblak.
42:41Desperate for a goal tonight, isn't it?
42:43I think everybody in here who's not wearing an Atletico Madrid scarf wants it to score as well.
42:47There's just an arm on him that probably knocks him off balance ever so slightly.
42:52There.
42:53Yeah.
42:54But Nermand's got an arm on him, you can see he's pushing him a little bit.
42:57He's got a hold of his left arm, which stops Isak getting the power that he wanted.
43:02I think he's having an excellent game tonight, Gravenberg, isn't he?
43:11Superb opening for the time.
43:13He's fantastic.
43:14Absolutely superb.
43:15There he's been.
43:16Barrios plays it through, Griezmann was the runner, and that's well-read by Alisson.
43:22Three and a half minutes to play in the first half.
43:42A good game.
43:43A good game.
43:44Yeah, it's been relatively even, they've had plenty of the ball.
43:47Atletico Madrid, but those two early goals, two sucker punches inside,
43:51seven minutes have Liverpool with a distinct advantage.
43:54Burtz away from Barrios, got a space ahead of him now, and he's got Isak as well.
44:00Isak back to Burtz, around the goalkeeper, missed kick from Trim Pong.
44:05Should've been 3-0.
44:06Oh, what a move.
44:07Brilliant from Burtz and great link-up play again.
44:11He's almost won it back in there as well.
44:14I think he was thinking of it going down, you know, when Oblak came out, Fletch.
44:18Terrific football.
44:19What about that for a row?
44:21There it is again, Alec.
44:23Brilliant from Burtz, fires it and keeps going, whooping us for a wee pass, lovely.
44:27What a great move, wasn't it?
44:32If anything, he probably just takes it a little too much to the right-hand side there,
44:38or he'd have stopped himself getting an absolute tap in, but a great little move.
44:43Not quite the air shot from Frim Pong, but pretty close.
44:47It's something Arnest Lok will like to see, though, three of his new signings all involved in the same move.
44:54Yeah.
44:55Excellent for Leyssen.
45:01Defending them there by Barrios.
45:07Burtz putting pressure on Oblak, who then makes a bit of a hash of the clearance.
45:20Supports line.
45:21Robinson to Ryan Grappenberg.
45:31Nobody there this time.
45:39Just got a lovely balance in Liverpool, haven't they?
45:42Yeah.
45:43Gonzalez with time to turn and then Galan on the run.
45:50I think he's offside.
45:51Just got it earlier, that's why.
45:53Yeah.
45:54Do you know, it's interesting, you've just talked about the balance Liverpool have got in midfield.
45:58You waxed lyrical last night about the depth of the Arsenal squad these days, and you weren't alone.
46:04A lot of people spoke about that on reflection after last night, but when you look at what Liverpool have got available to them tonight on the bench,
46:10they've still got the likes of Curtis Jones not available tonight, so I mean it's a really strong, deep group now that Liverpool have got as well.
46:20Great window, Arsenal great window, Forrest great window, nobody's standing still.
46:31Poli Gatto dispossessed by Barrios.
46:36There is one difference between the two, Liverpool and Arsenal in terms of depth, it might be at centre-half where they've got an embarrassed bit of Bridges.
46:42Yeah.
46:43Simeone's cross, he's looking the most likely to make something happen for them tonight.
46:49He has on the right-hand side, and I think you're right in mentioning him, you're obviously talking about Mascara who's come in as centre-back for Arsenal,
46:54he has looked apart since he came on in the first half here in fact, wasn't it?
46:59Capier can play there as well, can't he? Timber if you need him can play as a centre-back also.
47:05So four minutes of additional time, and a corner here for Antoine Griezmann and Atletico Madrid.
47:13And if he is going to score tonight, Isak, it might have to be at the cop end in the second half, which would be nice.
47:28I don't think he'd be too disappointed with that, would he? No.
47:30I also wouldn't be majorly surprised if he didn't come out for the second half,
47:37because there's been this, I mean, slots that I know he can play 45 minutes and maybe a bit more,
47:41but we'll see what he thinks based on his plans for Saturday.
47:44Absolutely, and you would think, you know, for somebody that hasn't played a lot of football this season,
47:48what has he had, 18 minutes for Sweden against Kosovo, you would think, I'm thinking to myself,
47:53you'd maybe give him another 15 minutes, give him an hour, but at the same time,
47:56if he hasn't played, probably the sensible thing you do is take him off at half-time.
48:00Eketike looking on, we'll see him at some point tonight, there's no doubt about that.
48:04He's made a very impactful start to life at Liverpool.
48:08One, one, two, three, three.
48:24Having a gallant, Trennic Longley, now Robin Lenorma.
48:38Simeone now finding Llorente, they've got Raspidori in the middle, that's defended by Canate and then cleared by Robertson.
48:58Simeone.
49:08Pablo Barrios, no offside here against Raspidori, they've got plenty forward here, Llorente's one of them and he's scored.
49:29Well, the last time he was here he scored two goals to break Liverpool's hearts and he scored on the stroke of half-time
49:37to drag Atletico the trip back into the game.
49:40I'll need another look at Raspidori's position here, my initial reaction was he was offside, but the lines were correctly, let him go, he'll have a look I think.
49:52Lovely finish though, just two pokes away, here we see the run, is he timed it perfectly, he's absolutely timed it perfectly, Canate's playing him onside.
50:00Canate's playing him onside.
50:03Is he in the...? Yeah, I don't think this will count, is he in the goalkeeper's line?
50:10He might be, you know.
50:11Well, they're checking it. Yeah, that's the only thing, is he in the goalkeeper's line?
50:16You could argue from that angle he might be, you know.
50:22He's through Canate's legs, doesn't he? He's right in front of him, I'll be surprised if this is given.
50:27Check over, and the goal stands, it's 2-1, Simeone celebrates and Llorente scores again for Atletico Madrid at Anfield, and that just changes the balance of things heading into half-time.
50:38Of course it does, and do you know something? You can argue about whether he's in front of the goalkeeper or not, but them actually scoring isn't that big a surprise, Fletch.
50:46Because since they've gone 2-0 and down, they've got a fair bit of possession, and they've created one or two openings, what a ball that is again.
50:55A super take as well by Gravenberg, a yellow card straight away for Longley.
51:00A painful one as well for the Dutchman, and that's both centre-backs of Atletico Madrid on a yellow.
51:16Longley has got Premier League experience with Spurs and Aston Villa, he was on loan at Atletico Madrid last season, made that deal permanent in the summer.
51:25I can tell you right now, Arma Slot's having a look at that goal, I can tell you right now he's having a look at the position of Griezmann, there's no doubt about that.
51:32One for the boys to have a chat about at half-time.
51:37Dominik Sir Bosleiter, Ryan Gravenberg, lifted in towards Virgil van Dijk, who's having to wrestle for space.
51:45And there's the half-time whistle, well Liverpool started like a train, didn't they?
51:49Two goals inside, seven minutes, the Salah free-kick deflected in off Robertson,
51:54the first time he'd scored in the Champions League for almost six years.
51:58And then Salah, wonderful poise, wonderful balance and strength.
52:02And a clinical finish, the 250th goal he scored in English football.
52:06But then right on the stroke of half-time, Raspardori beating the offside trap to set up Llorente,
52:12which halves Liverpool's lead.
52:14Chances for Isak in the first half, but he didn't score.
52:17Half-time analysis from Steve and Michael with Laura.
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