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 a Blood Red Podcast courtesy of the Liverpool Echo. I'm Guy Clark.

Thanks for joining us.

The Reds up and running in Europe then as Focus now returns to the

Friendly League.

Man A man on a mission as he looks to hit the 100 against Palace and just four games into the new season

its Pep Diyola's insecurities already getting the better of him.

We'll have all of that plus our team selector and match predictions to come

with our Liverpool correspondent, Tall Paul Gorse, the chief

Ian Doyle and the O Squires. Jen, I hope you're all well. Gorsley, come to you

first up, obviously, at Anfield in midweek for the return of Champions League

action and what a occasion it was in an atmosphere for the register playing.

Yeah massively missed wasn't it it was a bit of a throwback to those days of 1718 when

Liverpool kind of flew off the traps with the wind and the sails from the crowd and

looked like they were going to put my

land to the sword within 15 to 20 minutes. I think when Mohammed Sala missed that penalty in

Liverpool already won the look, there was almost a bit of a collective shrug as though

are well we're flying here anyway we're still going to beat these quite comfortably

and just before the penalty I had Theo and Doaley to me left and my right and I think I just

kind of turned to Theo and said this is going to be about four and ill this that they're absolutely

battening them.

Fourteen shots in the first half. Didn't kind of overly trouble the goal, but he made a really good say from the penalty and was obviously wrong-footed with the own goal, but there wasn't too many great saves from the keeper. It was all kind of last ditch,

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