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Hello everybody and welcome to another special edition of analyzing our field. This is a one-off really isn't it Dave?

A one-off chat for about 15-20 minutes because of the important breaking news regarding

the Liverpool and that is to do with, sadly, Virgil Van Dyche and his anterior cruciate ligaments injury that he picked up against

Devon in the Mejicar diary. So obviously tomorrow we're recording today on

the Monday recording the usual podcast on the Tuesday regarding the Derby regarding

Iax and looking ahead to Sheffield United next week. But today we're just going to get the big Van Dyke talk out the way really.

And so, you know, Dave, I'll let you start me saying,

Are you surprised, what do you think this is going to do to the title race all that sort of stuff like I'm not really sure where to start with this one?

There's devastating news.

Yeah, no it is it's terrible's terrible news, you know. It was just that we already spoke, what was it me and you? It was just a ridiculous, stupid rash challenge that's basically

no results in a really bad injury of one like the

the division's best players

uh... which is a shame in itself but then obviously we look at it from a Liverpool point of view.

In my opinion Josh I don't know if you agree Van Dyke is probably the worst player

Liffpool could lose.

I would put maybe Allison in that bracket.

I know they've lost Allison, but frankly it's not long term.

You know you think it may be shallow anyone like that but it does feel like

live maybe Salas up there as well but it does feel like live people have got kind of

plays you can come in in all the areas of the pitch where there's, you know, just in terms of the kind of character

and you know, this Colossus profile of Van Dyke, it does feel like it's just a huge blow and it does kind of feel like it can impact things like the title race

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