This is the analyzing Anfield Podcast on the Blood Red Channel, bringing you the best tactical and statistical analysis of Liverpool FC.

Hello and welcome to the latest analyzing Anfield podcast from Blood Red and the Liverpool Echo.

I'm your guest host Matt Addison.

There's no Dave Hughes this week with Josh Williams is alongside me as usual.

You're having a look back at Alexo Madrid very shortly and then having a bit of a

preview of the weekend's game with Manchester United at Old Trafford.

Let's start though at the Wanda Metropolitano where Liverpool won 3-2 against an angry

Diego Cimeonee's Atlletico Madrid.

I'll start just in terms of some general thoughts on the game Josh. Were you surprised at all how

Atleco approached the game? I think they were probably a lot more adventurous than probably most people

might have thought that it would be.

No, well I did flag before the game that they seem to have not stumbled upon but they seem to have moved

towards a different system this season.

Now at the ego see the only scene will always be the same really it always have the same kind

of identity same kind of playing style. But I did flag last week with Dave that he has got, he has built a squad to the extent now that despite representing such a playing style only individuals in the

team well most of them at least I really actually create very creative and

that lots of them have got lots of flare about them, individual quality,

good on a dribble and things like that.

It's a back three system that he stumbled across.

But if you look at some of the midfielders in the forwards, like,

I'll Felix Antoine Griesman, Thomas Lamar,

Rosiego de Paul,

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