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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Blood Red: Diogo Jota, the difference maker Liverpool needed earlier in top-four fight

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The 1-0 win at Wolves on Monday was the type of game Liverpool won regularly on the way to the Premier League title last season. And the latest Blood Red podcast, hosted by Matt Addison and featuring Ian Doyle and Sean Bradbury, wonders whether that would have been the case this season too had Jota not spent a large part of it on the sidelines. But the Portuguese is back now and his winner against his former club Wolves has revived Liverpool’s hopes of finishing in the Champions League places. Can the Reds do it? And is the 19-day break until their next match going to help or hinder their chances? The panel talk that before focusing on the burgeoning centre-back partnership between Nat Phillips and Ozan Kabak, discussing a Ben Davies theory, looking at Thiago’s performances, and then giving some end-of-season predictions. Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCJoin our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:08.0

Theogo Jata back and scoring Liverpool getting a result without necessarily being brilliant

0:14.4

and what did we make of Tiago? Welcome to the latest blood-red podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

0:19.1

I'm Matt Addison and we'll get into all of those topics very shortly with Ian Doyle and Sean Bradbury alongside me.

0:24.9

We'll also have a chat about Ozan Cabak, Nat Phillips, the International Break and a few more bits and

0:30.1

Bob's too over the course of the next half an hour or so. But there is of course only

0:34.8

one place to begin and that is dearly at Molinee where you were last night. Liverpool winners by

0:39.7

a goal to nil. What do you make of the game? Did Liverpool deserve that three points or was it a little bit closer than that you think?

0:45.4

Well, in terms of winning they couldn't get any closer than 1 nil, could it? Let's be honest.

0:51.4

But the game itself was absolutely appalling for the most part.

0:54.3

The first half in particular was absolutely dreadful.

0:57.1

If you know, Neil Jones, we used to work with you, was sat nearest to me.

1:00.5

I just turned to him and went, this is the worst game I've seen all season and he replied, well there's been an awful lot of competition. I was like, I know that's how bad this actually is. But there was one bit of quality wasn't in the first half that passing movement between Malay and Sala and the finish from Jota.

1:16.3

So in that sense, I suppose Liverpool were the ones who had that, as I say, that one moment of quality

1:21.1

which made all the difference in the game. And when you're playing in a game that was such a massive slong as that is.

1:25.3

And if you look at it, Waltie's games all season have been like that.

1:30.7

Nearly all of them have been like that. You know, certainly the ones that they play at Mullenew and it was actually was quite interesting walking into the ground.

1:37.0

We were speaking to some of the wolves, you know, staff members, you know, the people who are working at the door.

1:42.0

And they were like, oh, it's absolutely rubbish,

1:44.1

this isn't it?

1:45.1

So what do you mean?

1:46.1

It says, you know, just the football's just rubbish, isn't it without the fans there?

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