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.'m Guy Clark welcome along Liverpool United

then in their fight for a top-fall finish despite Manet's handshake snub at

Old Trafford and up next big Sam's baggies as the Reds head to the Hawthorns aiming to turn up the heat on those above.

We'll preview the action and of course have our team selector and match predictions to come as well.

Here to get into it all, we have David Lynch, Theo Squires and Matt Addison.

Gentlemen, thanks for joining us.

Lynchy, I'll come to you first up and how pivotal was that win and the manner of the win

over Manchester United at Old Trafford?

Yeah, it felt absolutely humongous. I mean, we did a couple of previews for it, basically didn't

we sort of not know when it was going to end up being played and I remember both times, sort of the mood to end up being played and I remember both times sort of the mood

around it being you know so negative and not really expecting Liverpool to do much to

be honest and you know they've been even when they've been absolutely flying in the league and coming up against

some poor United sides in recent years they haven't really done very well there at all.

So going there, having had all the issues they've had this season and United doing you know they're not necessarily

going to win the league worthy or at any point but they you know firmly in second place and

deservedly so and so you just thought that this was going to be another difficult night and then you know when

Fernandez scores early on as well it makes it look even worse but just the incredible strength of character

I think that Liverpool showed to sort of shrug off that early setback and there was a few setbacks during the game actually

that they did well to overcome and I think that that could be huge as pivotal because I just think in the context of this season where so much could go wrong, you know,

basically everything that could have gone wrong is gone wrong at times, you know, not just the injuries, but I think some of the

mad VAR calls or just tight calls have gone against them in moments and been very unfortunate and I think it would have been so easy to let heads drop in that moment last night but to come back and get a win and in the end a very convincing win. I think that that could

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