Alisson Becker on Liverpool's UCL clash with AC Milan

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Alisson Becker on Liverpool's UCL clash with AC Milan  16/09/2024  Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Italy

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00:30Good evening, first we have Alisson Becker and shortly afterwards we'll have the head

00:47coach Arnaud Slot.

00:48If you could raise your hand if you'd like to ask a question, we'll get through as many

00:52as we can.

00:53Who'd like to go first?

00:54Good evening everyone, tomorrow is a big chance for us to prove again and to go back to the

01:18good start that we had in the season.

01:22Unfortunately, the last match we were far, far away from what we could do on the pitch

01:32in respect of the other games, the way we played, and we know that.

01:37But football is quick and we have to be really focused for tomorrow night.

01:44It will be a really tough opponent that we're going to play against and we have to be ready.

01:50Hi Alisson, I'm Francesco Rocchi from Bright Sport.

01:59Welcome again to Italy.

02:01I'd like to ask you about your feelings, what feelings you have coming back here to Italy

02:06and to San Siro specifically in a game against Milan.

02:10Hi, it's always a pleasure to me coming back to this country.

02:19I also come back here on holidays with my family.

02:22It's always a lovely and special place to be.

02:25I always repeat the same, I love Italy.

02:28But tomorrow will be a tough game for us.

02:36Before us there is a great team, a huge club, a historic club.

02:42We know that because we know the history of football.

02:45We know that when these two teams, Liverpool and AC Milan,

02:48they always compete in great finals and matches.

02:52There have been a couple of them in the year 2000.

02:57So for us it's a pleasure, a full pleasure to play in a game like this tomorrow.

03:07We are ready to fight to get our targets.

03:12Hi Alisson and welcome back to Italy.

03:15I'm talking from Corriere dello Sport.

03:17Tomorrow will be also a competition between you, one of the best goalkeepers worldwide,

03:23and Magnan, another wonderful goalkeeper.

03:26What do you think about Mike Magnan and how do you classify him in the global standing?

03:33Mike Magnan is a great goalkeeper.

03:39He's doing incredibly well.

03:43And he has been doing so for 3, 4, 5 years.

03:47Since he came here to Milan he has always played wonderfully

03:51and also with the French national team.

03:55He has replaced a wonderful, a great goalkeeper who has been a world champion.

04:05He is doing great.

04:06Every time he goes to the pitch he plays very well.

04:09He is a very physical player, he is quick, he has technical skills.

04:13He is a very clean player.

04:17He is a very good goalkeeper.

04:20He is one of the 10 best players worldwide.

04:25In terms of quality as a goalkeeper he has advanced a lot.

04:30There are so many good goalkeepers but he is one of the best.

04:34I would like to ask you whether for you the atmosphere here in San Siro tomorrow

04:43made of huge supporters, a huge support,

04:47will it be a concern for you the fact that there will be a very warm environment with AC Milan supporters?

04:56Well, if you play at a high level like us, like we do,

05:01you need to like these kind of settings, these kind of atmospheres,

05:05with supporters supporting you or going against you.

05:10I'm sure that it will be a good occasion,

05:14a wonderful opportunity to play football before thousands of people,

05:18thousands of AC Milan supporters.

05:21We are happy about this opportunity

05:24and at the same time we need to be ready to do our best.

05:32If we really want to win this game we need to do our very best

05:37because we have a wonderful team ahead of us.

05:40Italian football is always tough.

05:46It's always a problem for English teams to play versus Italian rivals.

05:52So we need to be ready.

05:53What do you make of the new Champions League format generally?

05:57There are a lot more games.

05:59Does that make it tougher?

06:00How demanding is that on players?

06:02And also I wonder what you make of Liverpool's chances generally

06:07as potential Champions League winners this season?

06:09Can you do that?

06:11I think for the supporters it's amazing.

06:17More games, bigger games, big teams playing against each other.

06:24For us players as well it's a good thing

06:28that you are going to play against the best in Europe.

06:33It's always a good idea to add some games to the calendar

06:38that is not busy.

06:43I'm being ironic a little bit.

06:47But again we are here to do our job.

06:52Sometimes nobody asks the players what they think about adding more games.

06:59So maybe our opinion doesn't matter.

07:02But everybody knows what we think about that, having more games.

07:08Everybody is tired of that.

07:11But we have to bring those kind of things on side

07:16and stay focused on the big challenge that we have here tomorrow.

07:21And if we have a chance, let's see what we are going to do on the pitch.

07:28A lot has changed from the last years for us.

07:32We didn't play the Champions League last season.

07:35And we are all looking forward to that, to be back to the Champions League.

07:40And we are going to do our best to try to win.

07:49Hi Alisson, Michael Cuomo from Tele Lombardia.

07:52Could you please tell us how Federico Chiesa arrived?

07:58What was his arrival like?

08:02Are you seeing him? How do you find him?

08:09I don't need to give you any introduction of Federico Chiesa

08:13because he is a wonderful football player.

08:15You perfectly know him, much better than we do.

08:23In the past years he has given proof of his quality.

08:29He got injured, he had some ups and downs.

08:34Lately he had some bad periods.

08:38But the way he landed in Liverpool was extremely positive to me.

08:44I think that he arrived to our squad with a great smile,

08:48a huge smile painted on his face.

08:51Everybody is enthusiastic about Federico.

08:56And he is extremely happy about having this chance of playing in our squad.

09:03His quality, he shows it every time, every day.

09:09We are lucky to count on him.

09:14He is a top level player who can help our team.

09:20Good afternoon Alisson, I am Luca Savarese from Radio Cross.

09:24Being a goalkeeper gives you the chance to have a privileged look on the whole pitch.

09:30So what is Mr. Zlot doing for the team and for the tactics?

09:34Mr. Zlot has contributed with several positive things.

09:40Obviously all the players who have worked for a long time with Mr. Klopp

09:48will remember what he told us.

09:50So our characteristics will be influenced by Jurgen Klopp also in the future.

09:55But Zlot has arrived with a great enthusiasm, with new ideas regarding football.

10:01Actually his new ideas are not that different from what we did in the past.

10:06But still Mr. Zlot loves to make bold possessions.

10:10He loves to create occasions, starting in the defence,

10:16starting from the very goalkeeper, starting from myself,

10:19till arriving to the other pitch, to the other goal.

10:23And this will give us chances.

10:26I think that we like this thing of making bold possessions, of making passes.

10:36We like to play close to each other.

10:38We like the movements Mr. Zlot wants us to make.

10:43And he also gives us freedom to be whatever player we like to be.

10:48He works a lot on his staff and his staff works a lot as well.

10:54So I think that with Mr. Zlot's arrival we have all been very enthusiastic

11:03and we rely on the fact that we can do a good job this season.

11:07Does not being in the Champions League last year make you appreciate it even more?

11:12Do you feel as though you and your team-mates and the club as a whole belong in this competition?

11:17Yes. Imagine something that you really like to do and you stay without doing it for one year.

11:27How looking forward you would be for doing that thing again.

11:33So that's the way we feel.

11:35Playing in the Champions League was one of the reasons that I came here in Europe from Brazil.

11:44So not being able to play last season was really hard.

11:50But here we are again after a really good season of us qualifying for the Champions League

11:58in a really difficult league that is the Premier League.

12:01So we are looking forward to that for this beginning.

12:09Hi, my name is Maurizio Cardoni from Radio Latte Miele.

12:13Tomorrow you are going to face a rival that hasn't started that well.

12:18Not in a linear way, not very well in the first games,

12:23then a net victory, a net winning against Venice last weekend.

12:30Have you studied this new rival? Is there something that impacts you with this new AC Milan?

12:37We have always been impressed by the high quality of this squad.

12:45You cannot just take a look at the last results because the quality of AC Milan is there.

12:54It's still there and the quality of its players too.

12:57We know that tomorrow will be a wholly different game.

13:00It's a Champions League game.

13:02There will be the full motivation of players, of supporters.

13:06So it will be a completely different story.

13:09Tomorrow the situation will be very much different from what we have studied so far regarding AC Milan.

13:16We are focused on what we need to do, on our tactics, on our strategy, on the pitch and that's it.

13:27We really want to do a great job tomorrow.

13:30We want to perform greatly, not like we did against Nottingham Forest.

13:37Tomorrow we will have the chance to prove that we are still standing

13:41and we want to start this competition very well.

13:45Just to follow up on player welfare and the volume of games,

13:50you say no one asks the players.

13:52What do you think is the appropriate amount of football for a top player to be playing in a season?

13:59Is it 50 games? Is it 40 games?

14:01What competitions would you drop from the calendar to make more room?

14:10I think this is not only a question that I should answer here.

14:15The number is 30 or the number is 40.

14:18But it's a matter to sit down all together and listen to all the parts.

14:22Because we understand that we have the side of the media, from TV,

14:28we have the side from the UEFA, from the FIFA, from the Premier League,

14:32from the domestic competitions.

14:35We are not stupid, we understand that.

14:39And we understand that people want games, people want more games.

14:44But the reasonable thing would be all the sides that I mentioned,

14:51all the people who are responsible for making the calendar,

14:55organizing the calendar, to sit together and to listen to all the parts,

15:02including the players.

15:04I think so many players have spoken already about that.

15:13We just need to be listened.

15:16And that's what we would like to do, to sit together and to understand

15:23what is the thinking of the directions that football wants to go.

15:28And not only adding games, adding competition, adding this, adding that.

15:33At the end, what we want is giving our best for the football.

15:42If you are tired, you cannot compete in a high level.

15:46What I want is giving my best in all the games that I play.

15:50But we need a solution for that, and it doesn't look like we are close

15:56to a good solution for the football's sake and for the players' sake.

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