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

It's the Blood Red Podcast, courtesy of the Liverpool Echo, Liverpool Awake confirmation over Friday night

Sefe Cup third round tie at Villa Park. I'm Guy Clark. Welcome along as we preview

Friday's cup outing whether or not the game will even take place plus the importance of the

Reds FAA Cup campaign.

All that as well as our team selections and match predictions results not whether the game

takes place.

Alongside me, Matt Addison and Dan Kaye gentleman,

thanks for joining me.

We're recording this rather later on Thursday evening

than we'd initially anticipated.

We'd watched Jörgen Club's press

conference this afternoon, thought we had plenty to talk about Matt, and then on Thursday

afternoon the news breaking that significant COVID outbreak at Aston Villa's training ground and all of a sudden this game is in serious doubt?

Yeah, we're still waiting aren't we to find out the full extent of this and you know, it's a very strange situation isn't it that we're in at the

moment this is I think going to become more and more normal over the next few weeks I

think we're going to have a few examples of this and this isn't the only

only FAA cup game obviously our focus is mainly on

Liverpool but Southampton's game has been called off I think there's four or five other

ones as well which are either already off or are in doubt so yeah I think you know we've sort of had to come to terms with a few

different things haven't we over the last few months because of coronavirus and

the sort of implications that that has had and this is the latest example it's obviously not directly hit

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