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Hello and welcome to the Anfield rap.

It's Harriet Pryor hosting this week in the absence of Neil,

but I'm joined by another Neil, Neil docking.

I've got Rob Gutman and Ian Salmon here with me as well.

It's the international break.

It's sad.

We've got no football to talk about, but it is giving us a chance to get stuck into a few other things.

And I want to talk about five players within the context of the start of the season

assess their performances and their futures at the club.

John will do another five players next week.

But just first off I want to cover a few other stories from the past week and starting with the women's game because it was a great

introduction to the WSL season by Liverpool women. I was absolutely petrified before the game.

Rob was just saying the odds were 40 to 1 were they before. Apparently so, yeah.

For Liverpool to beat Chelsea, the reigning WSL champions that have won it three times in a row,

undefeated in 2022.

Neil, you watched the game yesterday.

It was some performance by the Reds to stick in it and then come

away with the three points. It was Chelsea who won all these league titles they not

went up against the Reds have they? It was a great opportunity I think for the

women's game yesterday was so many you know we've obviously the

Liverpool men's team not playing against Chelsea the eyes of the nation really a lot of

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