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.

The international break is over, but no one told Liverpool.

We'll be diving into exactly where it all went wrong on Saturday.

Theo Squires, David Lynch, and Rich Garner are all with me this afternoon and we'll dive straight in with you Theo.

I know you were at the game like myself and I suppose it's hard to know where to start really.

So many issues for Liverpool to solve. I'm not quite sure that there's one that

stands out above the rest. It just was not a particularly good afternoon all

round for the Reds. No it wasn't. They started slowly yet another game where they conceived the first goal and it just looks sluggish and they can silly areas talking about this international break where they're not played for so long that it could be a blessing in disguise for them because they'd actually

get to just work on the training pitch, get some of these issues out, and it seems

the exact same issues are there, the ones that we saw get snappily and games

before that. And it's hard to point your finger at it

because so much that's going wrong now.

And the only thing that we can say is, well,

players are coming back from injuries.

So you can't really use that as a big excuse anymore.

They're just outer form.

Low on confidence, fatigue possibly

after last season.

But you're seeing Trent Alexander Arna

make a couple of mistakes.

And we know he's obviously low on confidence that so far this season.

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