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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Allez Les Rouges: Debating the defence, Roberto Firmino and what will be key to Liverpool winning the title

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Peter Hooton is back with his excellent Allez Les Rouges podcast – and he’s invited a special guest along for the latest instalment.Alongside regulars Kieth Culvin, John Nicolson and Ste Monaghan is Accrington Stanley manager – and big Red – John Coleman.The lads were impressed with the way Liverpool started the season as West Ham United were put to the sword at Anfield – in particular debutant Naby Keita and the attacking options that were able to come off the bench.That said they were less heartened with the cover at the back and, while they believe Alisson could go on to become one of the club’s best ever goalkeepers, they do question whether Jurgen Klopp should have brought in another defender before the transfer window closed, and what his best centre-back partnership is.Reds boss Klopp is certainly not short of quality in midfield after the summer arrivals of Keita and Fabinho but James Milner proved on Sunday why he remains such a vital performer – and Coleman gives a fascinating insight into what the former England man is like up close.Coleman – who performed miracles to get Stanley promoted to League One last season – then offers his ‘controversial’ opinion on Roberto Firmino before talks turn to whether Klopp must deliver in what is his third full season in charge at Anfield.They key to winning the title is then discussed – including factors both on and off the field – before another must-listen podcast rounds off with the news surrounding Mo Salah this week.Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to another edition of Aile Rouge. I'm your host Peter Hooten. I'm joined by regular guest Keith

0:06.4

Colvin, John Nicholson and Steve Monaghan, all Coxian ticket holders. I'm delighted to say, I'm joined by Ackington Stanley's manager John

0:14.7

Coleman as well tonight. So we're going to be discussing our opening game

0:19.3

against West Ham and looking forward to the Crystal Palace game. I don't know what you thought but

0:24.6

I was I was delighted with the display on Sunday against West Ham.

0:28.8

The daughter was like a throwback to the throwback to the glory years really the actual the way the

0:34.9

team performed and you never seen to get out to second gear and I have options all over the

0:40.9

pitch now the one thing that really pleased me was the strength of the bench.

0:45.2

The bench looked, you know, for the first time in many years the bench looked very good, you know. I mean, John, I mean,

0:56.1

I mean, as I mean you came into the pub afterwards and you had a few

1:01.2

strong opinions the thing is if we're going to challenge

1:04.4

land city we all think I'll be in our city going to challenge our city we all think of the city of the title. We've got to put teams like that to the show and that's some disrespect to West Bank.

1:08.2

But you know Liverpool didn't take points off teams you were relegated last year at

1:12.4

on field and on fields but boards didn't take enough points

1:13.9

on.

1:14.9

And if we're going to do that, if we're going to be successful, these are the games we've got to win,

1:19.5

you know, we had no problem at Man City, clearly.

1:22.0

I know we lost the game a lot of me from home.

1:25.0

We won the next day times you played them and we've got to start beating the also runs really

1:32.2

if we're going to challenge.

1:34.0

And if it was in Patty?

1:36.0

So you think that, you know, it was a good performance?

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