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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Analysing Anfield: Liverpool's big midfield question, Virgil van Dijk's laboratory and dismissing the 'nerves' theory

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's the sixth episode of Analysing Anfield as Kristian Walsh and Josh Williams try to make some sense over what happened on Sunday afternoon, as a last-gasp victory over Tottenham sent Liverpool back to the top of the Premier League. The midfield trio is once more under the spotlight with explanations offered over why Jurgen Klopp likes it so much. There is a doting love letter to Virgil van Dijk and how he kept Moussa Sissoko quiet, while the team also try to quantify if the Reds are feeling the 'nerves' of a title race. Friday night's trip to Southampton is laced with caution and danger too as the Liverpool manager meets 'the Alpine Klopp', Ralph Hassenhuttl; the Austrian's style is assessed, as is the dead-ball ability of James Ward-Prowse, with a surprise midfield three named as best to deal with the Saints' intense pressing game. A must-listen! 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 your sixth episode, episode six of analyzing amfield I'm Christian

0:14.9

whilst and I'm here as always with Josh Williams we are here

0:18.2

48 hours after Liverpool scrap through got those three points that they desperately

0:23.1

desperately needed against Tottenham Hot Square.

0:26.0

Praise B to Hugo Leresse, Praise B to the ground which Toby Oldwell

0:30.7

decided to kick rather than the football.

0:33.2

We start then Josh, obviously we're all on a massive high.

0:37.3

Also a little bit of a relief there as well.

0:40.0

How did you see the game?

0:42.2

I think the theme will prevail here as we go on and on.

0:46.3

You know, it's a hard game to quantify, it's a hard game to really analyze because it was just

0:50.6

sort of to go a little bit colloquial off its head.

0:54.0

Yeah it was very much a game of two halves really.

0:58.0

First half we, for the large majority, dominated and the second half went the opposite way and we are

1:06.2

dominated whether that was to do with us sustaining the lead or not I'm not really too sure

1:10.5

but it was a very messy game like I mean if you if you want to delve

1:17.4

into the whole tactical aspects of it straight away yeah let's go for it we

1:21.4

mentioned last week about spares being adaptable and that was the thing that we need to be wary of. That's the thing that impresses us about them. And that's exactly what we saw.

1:32.0

But before and before they had to adapt,

1:35.0

the way in which we was, we had the advantage over them

1:38.0

was by just simply switching the play.

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