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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Analysing Anfield: Liverpool missing their man with the baton - and how to solve Klopp's pressing creativity problem

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It's the second episode of our tactics and statistics podcast, still currently called Analysing Anfield...Host Kristian Walsh (who says the name of the show is growing on him...) is yet again joined by Josh Williams as they dissect the goalless draw with Manchester United, and look ahead to a huge week against Watford and Everton.The duo discuss how United's injuries disrupted Liverpool's gameplan, and how the Reds have a pressing problem with creativity - quite literally. The substitutions are also analysed, while the absence of Trent Alexander-Arnold is also explained.The threat of Watford, and how they're the seventh-best team in the Premier League, is also looked at - with a glance towards the Merseyside derby too.A must listen - with feedback always welcome. 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

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

0:08.0

Hello everybody and welcome to the second episode of Analyze in Anfield, your tactics and statistics show.

0:14.8

Yes, we're keeping that name for now where as always if you have any other suggestions

0:19.7

fire them across. We haven't had any good ones yet. So we're with analyzing I'm field I'm your host Christian Walsh and with me as always is Josh

0:27.2

Williams how are you doing Josh yeah I'm good yeah and I'm forward to getting

0:31.4

into another one we've seen too have had good success from the first one, the same just feedback, so let's get going on another one.

0:37.5

Yeah, they're for normal soldiers to get off the airwaves, yes, so that's always a positive.

0:41.0

And we will start by talking about a vanilla draw against Manchester and

0:45.4

I said Josh bit of a disappointing result a bit of a disappointing performance when the

0:50.0

context of what happened is taken into consideration but you know I think you might

0:55.2

have a bit of a different take on that in terms of you know Manchester United and

0:59.1

the way the injury sort of impacted Liverpool a little bit.

1:04.0

Yeah well firstly I thought the match was shocking in terms of an entertainment value

1:10.0

it was really really bad I thought.

1:12.0

Waste of what is some of the merino ones wasn't it?

1:14.0

That's the surprise.

1:16.0

Yeah, it was, I think initially when the injuries were starting

1:20.0

I was thinking to myself like any fan fun that's perceived to be a positive but it just

1:26.6

wasn't it just ended up killing the game and the first half was over before it even started

1:31.2

and things like that but But from a tactical perspective,

1:34.6

it seems to hinder us too.

1:37.3

So that's something I've a rug to work this week haven't I.

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