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 to the latest Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

I'm Matt Addison with Paul Gorse and

David Lynch alongside me. We'll be looking back at Brighton and ahead to Manchester City shortly

with Liverpool's title chances at best hanging in the balance.

We'll pick our teams for Sunday's game as well at the end of the show

and of course make our score predictions,

but plenty of things to discuss before them.

Of course they'll come to you first and we will touch on that 1-0 defeat midweek against Brighton shortly with reference to what that means for Manchester City,

but first of all both Yogan Clop and Pep Guardiola have been speaking ahead of the game today and it seems the Manchester City Boss has had a little bit of a pop at Glop.

He has yeah he's he's done that typical

Peep Guareolar fashion where it's very passive aggressive and very

sarcastic and sometimes when it's written down it doesn't always come across as

though he's having a dig but when you actually watched the footage of it, you really did seem to take umbrage with a

suggestion from Clop that Manchester City's over the issues have led to them having a couple of weeks off.

I must admit I'm not too sure where and when that two weeks was.

That was just a bit of an off-the-cuff comment from co-oponies.

It looks like I didn't have directly come back on them, but yeah,

well, they all certainly wasn't happy with it and he was saying, oh, no,

Yegan's got it wrong, it wasn't two weeks, it was two months, it was three months,

it was four months, clearly just playing up to it and handling it all up and

the mask has slipped a little bit as not you know we noticed that last season when the

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