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

Hello and welcome along to the latest Liverpool Echo Blood Red podcast.

I'm your host Matt Addison, Ian Doyle and Kiefer McDonald both alongside me

here in the Liverpool Echo offices.

We're going to have a little bit of a chat about Darmstadt last night.

We're going to have a talk about Romeo Lavia as well.

We'll get the latest on that a little bit later in the show.

But we'll start with last night first Eury.

You were there.

Theo was there. York Schmacher was there as well to watch along

what did you make of the game obviously

Liverpool's final preseason match it was fairly similar to what we've seen in

other preseason games as well, I suggest.

Yeah, Liverpool really going forward and somewhat less so defensively.

It was a step up in standard compared to everybody bar by Munich for Liverpool, I think think in the games that they played so far

What was interesting is as a down stack going into the game I think we do not research

Hadn't we for once one of these games and they'd played four friendlies and they hadn't

Scored a single goal but they'd only conceded three and they'd had

two nill nills in the last two so when Liverpool go two-nill up after about eight

minutes you think well this is actually quite a good performance so far and then

down-start get that goal which was a goal that

anyone who's watched any of Liverpool's games over the last three or four weeks

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