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 back to the latest Liverpool Echo Blood Red podcast Paul Gore

David Lynch and Richard Garnett are all alongside myself Matt Addison as we talk

through the latest LFC talking points across the next half an hour or so.

Of course, they'll come to you first.

Obviously, we'll talk through the game on Saturday against Chelsea.

I mean, the biggest thing for me coming away from it really

was just the difference really between the two games in or at Wembley and the cup finals last season

Liverpool and Chelsea compare it to this we knew there was a drop-off but that was kind of the thing that I thought coming away from that game.

What did you make it better?

Two teams who would have them struggling in seasons, really. You you know you could tell it was

what was it 8th against 10th just for how no there was, I mean the atmosphere wasn't great to begin with, was the 12th 30 kickoffs really do bring out the best in Anfield, but I kind of had a hope during the week that with it being Chelsea and with it being a big fixture and all that kind of stuff.

We'd have seen something a little bit similar to the Manchester City game when Anfield rarely rode on Liverpool over the line particularly you know once that

goal got ruled out for the last 25 minutes or so but it just never got going at all and

when that happens to players we find it difficult to kind of browse the troops and even

more so when it's a team playing with virtually no confidence.

So it was just a little bit of a perfect storm

to combine to produce one of the most ordinary games of football

of that I think I've seen in an

I feel in all honesty it was just I can't even think of one chance

uh... mudrick obviously had the side net and when he came on didn't he

had thought kodikakosh should have done better with with an early one on the first

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