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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 Liverpool.com podcast. I'm Matt Addison, Michael

Plant and Richard Garnett are with me as we discuss Mohammed Sala and his comments over the weekend

and Liverpool's win over into Milan in the San Zero. Before we get stuck into that though,

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after conceding late at Leeds and then obviously everything that Salah had said.

But yeah, it was an impressive and important win in Europe for another pool.

And we've said this a few times this season, but a step in the right direction, I would say.

Yeah, I think so.

And I think that everything happened from Saturday night at Leeds

really overshadowed what an important game it was for Liverpool,

because the win now, I think, puts them in a brilliant position to make that top eight.

And if they'd have even drawn last night, that would have been looked a lot more difficult

and a defeat at borderline

think would have made it not impossible

but but very very difficult bordering on impossible

so it was a huge match huge three points

for the Reds and I think from Slott

and from Liverpool's perspective that they will be just delighted

that there's something positive to talk about

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