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

The Blood Red Podcast, courtesy of the Liverpool Echo, I'm Guy Clark.

Welcome along the Hornetset stung at

Anfield as the Reds albeit momentarily moved top of the Premier League table the

European Front no takes centre stage as the Reds launch their next offensive.

Plus we'll bring you our team selector and match predictions as well.

To do all that we have our Liverpool correspondent to Paul Gorse, the Branflakes Boy himself, Matt Addison, and keeping on the pulse,

trends writer Charlotte Coates. I hope you are all well. Gorsey, I'll throw over to you first,

and I suppose the word to sum up Saturdays when was routine

Yeah I mean I don't think live bill whatever going to be after fluent best

Straight from the international break.

You know, players don't return as all Thursday.

Can't really do too much in terms of training.

It's just about making sure that everyone's fitting healthy and they're ready to go for Saturday and throw in the fact that it was R12 kick-off as well which are notorious, you know, post-international breaks. I think it was only expected that Liverpool were going to kind of just meander through.

And I never expected them to do anything other than where I said on the pod on Friday,

that they were going to win 4 win four and I suppose I was

been a little bit optimistic with that. Probably a little bit more narrow than I had to be

but I think that's just looking at it with the Liverpool Glasses on I think if you were

you know a full-on-neutral

watching that game for the final 25 minutes half an hour you're thinking Liverpool

are comfortable and this is not going to be anything other than a Liverpool win

but the Fabinial penalty later on was important just to make sure that it was Liverpool.

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