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. I'm Guy Clark. Welcome along. No festive football for the Reds, but a watching brief as both Man City and Chelsea took the gifts on offer to them. Coming up, we'll discuss the fallout from Boxing Day, analyze

Liverpool's Afghan boost and preview the visit to the King Power. So get into all of

that as well as our team selector and match predictor. We have the O Squires and Hannah Pinock I have to say to both of you first of all

Merry Christmas hope you've had a good festive time and well Theo is a bit weird issue wasn't it no boxing day football for

Liverpool fans to indulge you I was loving it all until you wheel me out to talk

about Leicester City again bored of talking about the foxes now. Seems we've been doing this all month.

Yeah, it was quite nice.

You think every year we have the urban cop saying,

we played too much festive football.

You need to break it up more.

And it looked like this fixture list

was going to be really hard on Liverpool but by just taking that one game out of it

it's quite nice to be able to just sit back relax you can have your Christmas dinner

you can have your leftovers, your turkey sandwiches or whatever,

whatever your presents you got, just have a nice chill day, look at the scores and there's no stress

involved.

Yeah, it wasn't ideal in terms of results.

So Chelsea got the win, City got the win,

Chelsea now level on points of Liverpool,

it's six points behind, no, city is six points ahead of Liverpool,

but they've got the game in hands and they can just relax.

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