Analysing Anfield: Thiago Alcantara stepping up at perfect time – and his form is just the start

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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🗓️ 22 May 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Stand-in host Guy Clarke joins Josh Williams for the latest edition of Analysing Anfield to assess the 3-0 win at Burnley, and the starring roles played by Nat Phillips and Thiago Alcantara, and preview Liverpool’s final game of the season at home to Crystal Palace. Win that one and the Reds will almost certainly book their place in next season’s Champions League. But after a testing campaign, do the underlying numbers suggest they would deserve that? Josh digs deep into the statistics to answer that question as well as going in-depth on Phillips and Thiago, who along with Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Mohamed Salah, have been the driving forces behind Liverpool’s late-season resurgence. It’s a resurgence that would be capped with victory over Palace on Sunday. The Eagles have little to play for, but in what will be Roy Hodgson’s final match in charge, who could pose a threat to Jurgen Klopp’s top-four chasing side? Enjoy.Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCSign up for our Liverpool FC newsletters: https://data.reachplc.com/210734476470860Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Analyzing Anfield Podcast on the Blood Red Channel, bringing you the best tactical and
0:08.4	statistical analysis of Liverpool FC.
0:11.6	Hello and welcome to this week's Analyzing Anfield your tactics and scouting
0:16.6	podcast courtesy of the Blood Red channel.
0:19.1	I'm Guy Clark alongside me Josh Williams analyzing Anfield Guru as we're going to look back on the win over
0:26.0	Burnley and ahead to the final day of the season against Crystal Palace with
0:29.2	Liverpool of course out to secure Champions League qualification. Josh, how you doing?
0:35.0	I'm doing good mate. It's nice to be away from the host chair this week.
0:38.0	So, you know, how's it feel to be standing in?
0:41.0	Quaking in my boots, mate.
0:43.0	It's one of those for you, isn't it?
0:45.0	Easy one, sit back.
0:46.0	Now, we've got plenty to kind of get into these final games of the season,
0:51.0	the win over Burnley and now looking ahead to the game with Palace.
0:54.1	But before we even, I suppose, get into that, I just wanted to ask you how the stress levels have been.
0:58.9	I know over the last few weeks you and Dave doing these and Dave's been saying, yeah, I'm keeping all right and you've gone
1:03.7	I'll move over how I'm feeling but Liverpool have picked it up just at the right time
1:07.9	haven't they? Yeah it's been a weird season you know lately I mean, I mean, Liverpool at top of the form,
1:13.6	table at the minute. And then I was saying last night, to where Paul Gors,
1:17.6	since we were on our way to football, it doesn't, it doesn't feel that way, it really doesn't,
1:21.6	it doesn't feel like Liverpool is in form.
1:24.0	It doesn't feel like we are.
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