LASK

Uh, wrap up the other results.

AEK beat LASK 1-nil on Tuesday night.

Betis won 3-2, um, in Lille, which included a winning goal from Tom- former Tottenham youngster Troy Parrott.

Dortmund beat Villarreal by three goals to nil.

Uh, I mean, what, what I hope and, uh, is that we don't stop the anger towards the board that, you know, that...

I mean, I've not been on since we, uh, since, since the first game against LASK, and, uh, I'm furious at what's actually happened.

Uh, because you had your, your countdown from 70 days down to the first Champions League game, and we just dithered and dithered and dithered.

Uh, and nothing will change till we get rid of that puppet master at the end of the day because the CEO, the CFO, the interim chairman, they're just, they're just puppets at the end of the day.

We completely tore up the plan as soon as we were bounced out the Champions League.

Um, no matter what my thoughts on the window is or the individual players are, uh, there's always that caveat that because of the Champions League failure, we didn't do enough anyway.

Uh, so before the Champions League game against LASK, we signed four players.

After it, we bring in Sorensen on loan, Johnston on loan, Miyuki on loan, never kicked a ball in senior football.

Inter, Lille, Roma, Shakhtar.

The most winnable ties seems the clash against group phase debutants LASK of the Austrians.

The problem for Torre is that that game is in Austria rather than in Slovakia.

Nonetheless, whatever.

I think Danny's right.

I think the LASK defeat is still in everybody's mind.

And I think the next time we drop points or lose a game, I think that'll be used as a kind of stick to beat.

Martin and Neil and the coaching staff over the headway, which I kind of understand, especially if Sunday was to go tits up.

So to get off on a good start against arguably, like you said, one of the stronger and better teams in our group, in our group, I should say, see, I'm still still used to saying that we're matched up against.

It's very important, you know, and then we have Lask away, which, you know, weird, we've we've had a history of weird, strange away fixtures in Europe.

And that just feels like a strange one.

But I'm looking at it now via Real at home.

They're not bad.

The last couple of years have been, they've been... pretty

decent and that's an away match so it's just can you go and get you know Lask on paper should be not easy but it should be three points to the Reds and you get three points against Villarreal and then you're heading into those real hostile atmospheres of Fenerbahce Club Bruges and then Inter Milan Porto that's I mean but again good good set of traveling support and we've played Porto almost every year it feels like in the Champions League since like 2017 so well that's why I keep

saying we should buy their goalkeeper because we're playing him every other season anyway, so he might as well just turn up at Anfield.

Yeah, I think if you know your football, you know that's like a notoriously tough place to go.

Obviously, AK Athens, they're not the best team that LASK are going to come up against, but it's certainly a cauldron of atmosphere.

It's a bit like, you know, it's like going to one of the teams maybe in Istanbul, even if they're not at their best, it's just a horrible place to go.

There's many places, you know, no one really... relishes an away trip to belgrade or something either do they it's in that category of like really tough uh cities to go to hostile hostile exactly yes a very hostile game i think if you knew football you knew that that was going to be tough for lask um yeah they lost one nil i think the performance was okay they didn't really offer enough to me they looked a little bit nervous i think we can forgive them that on their champions league debut but i was hoping the whole situation against celtic would have kind of got that like already sort of like shaken out of them a bit yeah exactly they've already been like knocked out of the Champions League basically and then they got there in this incredible fashion I was hoping that they would sort of show a little bit more they did try they had their chances Horvat went close with a good run Kaladzic at the end the man famed for an injury time header when he put it over this time

They're too far behind the teams in sort of 14th and 15th.

And that means instead of five Champions League or five European start places, Austria will have just four and they will start further back in the qualifiers.

So LASK's next chance to reach the Champions League might never come along again.

You know, it's important that they won it this time to get into it because it's going to be hard and it's going to be harder for second and third and fourth and so on.

Do you expect Sinisala to stay in there? So will Sam Johnson end up

Sinisalo, I think he didn't have his greatest game against Lask in truth.

I've got to say, I liked him last season when he came into the side.

I think with regards to Sam Johnston, he has greater experience.

We're not going to Lens.

We're playing Lens at home and we're going to the likes of Lask.

And you're playing so many games of football that I think it's impossible to want...

Gone are the days of just putting Henderson, Fabinho, Wijnaldum in a team and just leaving them there all season.

Pepe, Haji.

I just mean this dude in Lask, Adeneron, who, you know, who had a crazy.

Exactly.

That kid went