This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Hello, you're listening to the latest Liverpool Echo Blood Red

podcast. I'm your host Matt Anison with Ian Doyle, Theo Squires and David

Lynch. I can't promise you this will be half as funny as some of the stuff

that Christina Rinaldo came out with last night night but I can promise we'll be getting

into all of the latest Liverpool FC topics. We'll talk about Southampton, we'll assess the season so far and

how things are shaping up with the World Cup now just about upon us.

Firstly, we were all at Anfield on Saturday as Liverpool beat Southampton.

Relatively come to please expect that of course, but it's not always been the case so far this season it was relatively

controlled couple of really good saves from Alice and Becker but that was exactly what

the Reds needed wasn't it at this point?

Yeah Liverpool stopped playing at half time really, didn't they? They kind of thought they'd done enough to win.

I think it was probably one of those games where we actually saw maybe one or two of the players

realized that the World Cup was actually next week. so they just went well we just better be careful here

Yeah, there's one 20 points in the second half were

Virgil Band Day cats are going for a 50-50 with somebody and I just I don't know what he was thinking but I was thinking

that back of my mind thinking he's actually going to go for this one but you know he succeeded with the

tackle shall we say but no Liverpool played really well first Staff, it was interesting one of the sense

that when Southampton equalised, it made little difference

to the way that the game went.

And I think sometimes in the past,

a very recent past, that Liverpool could see didn't equaliseise with it the crowd and the team would have struggled a little bit I think but there wasn't really much of that I think the performance gone forward certainly

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