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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Analysing Anfield: Van Dijk v Koulibaly and why Newcastle visit could be right time to re-introduce Shaqiri

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Virgil van Dijk v Kalidou Koulibaly is just one of a number of big battles in Liverpool’s Champions League opener at Napoli. And in the latest Analysing Anfield, featuring Josh Williams and debutant David Alexander Hughes, they take a deep dive into Tuesday’s Stadio San Paulo clash. Talking points include last season’s corresponding Champions League fixture between the sides, why it went down as Liverpool’s worst performance of the season, but why it also demonstrated Carlo Ancelotti’s enduring class, the argument for Joe Gomez and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to play from the start, an examination of Napoli’s major threats, Hirving Lozano and Lorenzo Insigne, and of course, that match-up between van Dijk, the world’s best defender, and Koulibaly, one of the pretenders to the Dutchman’s throne. But before all that is a preview of this Saturday’s Premier League encounter at home to Newcastle United. Josh and David dissect the Magpies under Steve Bruce, look at why the first goal, as well as set-pieces, will be all-important, and why it could be time for Jurgen Klopp to bring Xherdan Shaqiri back in from the cold. 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 analyzing Anfield Podcast on the Blood Red Channel bringing you the best tactical and statistical analysis of Liverpool FC.

0:18.8

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of analyzing on field your tactics and analytics podcast for the Blood Red channel as you can probably tell it is a different voice of usual

0:25.6

hoaxing the show this is Josh Williams speaking. Christian's having a week off

0:30.2

so the guest this week alongside me is the one and only David Hughes.

0:34.6

How are you mate?

0:35.6

Yeah, I don't know what we've got one and only introduction mate but yeah doing well.

0:39.3

I apologize to everybody who will be disappointed that's not Mr. Walsh on today,

0:43.3

but just trying to stick with us if you can

0:46.0

and I'll do my best to make a enjoyable listen.

0:49.2

Josh's ear anyway at least.

0:51.5

Yeah, for those that don't know, David is,

0:54.8

I've got the same role as me.

0:56.9

We're the two in the company

0:58.7

that are responsible for providing football analysis. and writers were technically called.

1:05.0

Problem is, David's based in Manchester,

1:07.0

so we don't usually get the chance to team up like this,

1:11.0

but as I said today, he's joining up with me so and another thing is

1:15.2

well he's blue so that'll be an interesting little perspective that I was

1:18.5

funny I was thinking and we're in a blue shade today but that's not me trying to make a point there trust me I do

1:26.1

go to every Liverpool alone game and I'm pretty laid back these days so try and go

1:30.3

easy on me if you don't mind yeah you, you're covered up there, don't you?

1:33.1

Yeah, at on fields.

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