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

Hello everybody and welcome to the latest Liverpool Blood Red Podcast with me, Ian Doyle.

Joining me today, I'm pleased to announce,

is our full-time Liverpool correspondent,

both home and away.

James, James, not too bad, thank you yourself. I am full of cold. Thanks for asking.

Also with us is the most social member of the sports team Joseph Rimmer. Hi Joe.

Hi, how are you? I'm fine.

Excellent.

And also the nicest man of sports journalism, it's Chris Beasley, I Chris.

Hello, Ian.

He wasn't playing along with that at all.

Anyway, it's been an interesting week for Liverpool in which they played Chelsea and they

look ahead to play Chelsea again.

James, you were down with myself at Melwood today to listen to Jörgen Club speak looking back at

the League Cup game I'm not calling the Caribou Cup game in midweek in which

Liverpool lost two one but also looking ahead to the game at Stanford Bridge and he did have some worrying injury news didn't they?

Yeah, I think you know obviously all everyone was waiting on what the latest bulletin was on Virgil van Dyke and

certainly all the news all week was that he would be okay. Van Dyke said himself after the game last weekend, I'll be fine.

I don't think anyone ever expected him to play in midweek.

But yeah, it is a concern the fact that Kopp said he still wasn't ready

to be in full training and it would be a late judgment call on whether he takes part at Stamford Bridge I think it must be a

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