good evening, welcome to the tottenham hotspur stadium where i think you have to argue that the pressure is really on liverpool coming into this game, even though they are a point above tottenham in they are a point above tottenham in the current premier league table. don't forget, they are the champions. and as we said, there are the team that struggling to perform in the league recently with no wins and no goals in those last four games. saying that, their recent record against tottenham is excellent, just one defeat in the last 18 games in all competitions. and it's not so long ago since they beat them at anfield in mid—december that roberto firmino won that game with a 90th minute header. a game in which liverpool dominated possession, tottenham had good chances to win in the second half which prompted jose mourinho to say afterwards that the better team lost the game, which didn't go down too well with juergen the game, which didn't go down too well withjuergen klopp. so as ever, with a fixture like this involving these two managers, we have our eyes firmly on the touchline as wel

well, we can go to the tottenham hotspur stadium. alistair bruce ball is there for 5live commentary tonight and joins us now. what did you make of those comments around trying to schedule football at the moment and how it's done? i think 96. i think we are in a situation where you have sympathy with both parties. so scott parker i can understand his dismay at being told on 9:30am monday morning that they have a game away from home on wednesday night particularly considering for them players only got the training on friday. they have got chelsea at home on the weekend and manchester united until next wednesday. equally tottenham have so many games to play. they have so many games to play. they have the original fixture called off on that day when they were getting ready for the game. i think the point is the premier league will tell you that because of the situation we are in, all the clubs at the start of the season are pretty much signed up to have to be flexible and beef is one of those instances. i can understand the points of bot

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