This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Seven Heaven and an opportunity in the Carabal Cup quarterfinal,

Liverpool's young talent in rude health right now.

I'm Guy Clark and this is the Academy show

here on Blood Red and sat alongside me to talk

all things under 23s, under 18s and even that

Carabal Cup quarter-final with Aston Villa is Matt Addison. Matt thanks for

joining me how are you? Yeah really good mate, good to be in. And looking at the academy sort of broad stroke before we get into things,

mentioned 7 heaven there, that obviously the 7 nil win over Napoli this midweek.

But before we get on to that and just sort of the the broad

consensus of things everything seems to be going very well down at the economy

right now yeah absolutely there's there's every reason to be positive at the

moment obviously 7 nil wins are no bad thing at all and

when you see all of the goals that are flying in the way that the teams are progressing I mean

there was two or three concerns earlier in the season in terms of the under

23s weren't getting the results they weren't turning draws into wins that kind of

thing but certainly for both Neil Kritchely and for Barry Lutis now it just seems to be

clicking into gear and with so many

matches to come over the next few weeks and into the second half of the season that

can only be a good thing can't it? Yeah just looking at the under-23s and it

doesn't seem as though they've suffered a defeat

whether it be Premier League 2 or in the Premier League Cup well for a good two or

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