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

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Analyze inandfield, your tactics and analytics podcast,

courtesy of the Budmy channel. I'm Josh Williams and I'm joined by David Hughes for what is

quite an important week for Liverpool, mate. Yeah, huge mate.

Made even better by the results in the Champions League,

I think, getting that third goal, you know, the two-gold cushion

kind of feels like Liverpool can go fully at it on Sunday where maybe

City feel like they have to balance both fixtures a little bit more obviously

they've got a tough one over in Madrid haven I've only got a slender one-go-a-go-1-goed lead.

So yeah, I think it was a good start of the week full of pool

and now it's all about the big one at the Etiad.

I am assuming that you're looking forward with from a neutral perspective.

Yeah, because you know what's really good about this, this fixture in this era, in the

clock slash Guadiola era is it never fails to disappoint.

I think traditionally you know in the in the Premier League you've had big fixtures

that so often just don't really deliver.

You know they can be a little bit. Teams can be a bit shy. You can see the nerves out on the pitch,

but this one just always seems to deliver even if it's not a goal fest.

I'm trying to think of the game last season at the Ettyard finished one all.

Just a really intense game even though they didn't have a ton of goals in it.

So I'm expecting that even if this isn't a goal first thing it'll be a really interesting game

which you know settled by these Smalls the Margins and it'll be a good one to watch. really going on a few different routes really obviously we've played Ben Fica.

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