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 now field, your tactics and analytics

podcast courtesy of the Blue Red channel. I'm Josh Williams and I'm joined by

David Hughes. Dave, how's you being mate? Yeah good so far mate. Sunshine's out, which is a rarity, isn't it?

It's a bit of a quiet one, honey.

Yeah, football wise, ready, quiet.

As far as times, focus on the positives, mate, choir. That's why science is focused on the positive, makes sunshine.

But certainly, yeah, it's always like that. We dread it, don't we, in our jobs, these international breaks,

because it's just a completely different environment that we work in and

sadly one that's not as enjoyable as I'm sure it is for many listeners as well.

Yeah I always think it's funny how coincidentally when

there's no football getting played you see rumors of transfers I'm

imagine shock it's quite clearly a dry newsweek and considering we have a full

podcast to press on with we should have probably done a Q&A this week.

So regular listeners of the show, regular contributors to

the Q&As on this show. Look for that next week. You know we might do that next

week and it's considering, you know it depends what's going on at the time and things like that but it might be

something we use to fill the slot next week but this week we do have things to talk about

a bit of a variety of topics really touching on different things. I think first

mates we will start with probably the Champions Lead throw, obviously we previewed it before it happened and we assumed certain teams would go through and things like that.

Talked about the best case scenario and the scene Liverpool ended up getting was a

team that we didn't actually anticipate going through in Ben figure so I mean I'm sure you're in the same book as me and same as I'm thinking

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