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

The Blood Red Podcast, courtesy of the Liverpool Echo, I'm Clark welcome along a Derby like no other

Liverpool Red Hot the toffies stuck in a battle to survive will preview the action

purr over Tiago Alkantara as well as bring you our match predictions and team selector ahead of the Merseys

lobby to do all of that we have our Liverpool correspondent both home and away to Paul

whilst the Chief Ian Doyle and the face that runs the place, Joe Rimmer.

Jents, I trust you're all well and, well, Gorsley I'll throw over to you first.

Liverpool 4, Manchester NIL discuss.

Do you know what?

On Tuesday morning I was thinking the general optimism amongst Liverpool fans seems to be so high and so obvious that

Liverpool are going to say this red sofianized at later at night that it was almost becoming worrying that it was you know the obvious story to be written was was going to be a banana skin in Liverpool

we're going to come across cropper and i think that for

Liverpool supporters typically have a certain age probably a unique

feeling is that going into a game against United Way that convinced that

Liverpool are going to absolutely hammer them that you worried that it's all a bit too

obvious and even in Liverpool's dark days of say, what, early 90s, mid 90s, even never anywhere near

as feeble and complicit as United We're on Tuesday United on field and of course the playing a team

you could write the claim with the best in the world at the moment alongside Manchester

City. But United absolutely no character, no fight, spams really and everything the

Carrie Evel was saying on Comte, was spot on. From the post effective as soon as

he went down the right inside five minutes and

shall I laid it on a plate for Diaz you never thought that Liverpool weren't going to do anything

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