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 back to the latest Liverpool Echo Blood Red Podcast.

We've got the same panel as this time last week,

I think, and some similar issues to discuss as well.

Paul Gorse, David Lynch, and Kiefer McDonald

all alongside myself, Matt Addison, and we'll spend the next half an hour or so trying to work out what Liverpool do next once again

We'll have a little bit of a chat around the FAA Cup replay as well before at the end of the show we'll pick our teams for that game. But,

Gorsley, let's start with Brighton. You were obviously down there on the

south coast and I think it was fairly predictable to be honest, which in

itself is a bit of a concern ready, but I suppose it wasn't quite

predictable that they would be quite that bad. Was this a new load do you think for Liverpool this

season? Yeah, 100%. I think that's probably the worst thing about the role matters we were heading down on Saturday afternoon or Saturday morning actually and you're just thinking,

Liverpool probably won't win this and it's probably going to be a really difficult afternoon and brighten a

favorites and and all that kind of rolled into one just kind of sums up how desperate it's got

for Liverpool this season I was thinking of full time is this, you know, where

is this rank in terms of the bad results that Liverpool have had on the game clop and

they've been kind of heavier defeats and whatever else, but normally there was at least

some mitigation around those performances and results and this one that didn't have any at

all.

I think the first one that came to my head was the four one defeated Tottenham in members of October 2017 I think and

That was just a bit of an off day and Liverpool was so poor defensively but they still had that thing where they hadn't bought the centre back in the summer and it was still kind of leaving them a little bit hamstrung at times and we need to find like was possibly just around the corner and you know every other kind of disappointing result that they've had

has either been a little bit of an aberration at an off day, you know, when they were beating three and

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