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 along to the latest Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

I'm your host Matt Addison with Paul Gorst and Kaidelaini,

both with me as we talk through the Champions League draw

and all of the rest of the latest Liverpool topics

after they beat Stephen Gerald's Aston Villa last weekend and

play Newcastle United on Thursday.

We'll talk a little bit about all of those things in the next few minutes, but

Gorsley the biggest story from today is the Champion League draw, second time lucky or

potentially a little bit unlucky for Liverpool in that they've got a slightly harder draw second time around.

Inter Milan, it is going to be in the last six. a slightly harder draw second time around.

Into Milan it is going to be in the last 16.

What's your reaction to that and the very strange

sort of events of the two Champions League draws

that we've had to sit through today.

Yeah, well, the first one was a bit strange, wasn't it?

And Raya Ash, I was doing the draw and he obviously picked out Manchester

United again through the Royal and when I seen seen it I thought hang on it's not even allowed and then I put something in our way I grew up about it and didn't really get a response and then they kind of just said oh well you like to

can't draw a bit of a well so you'll have to do it again and then he

pulled that mad city and it was on a bit strange was it it It was like, well, surely there's got to be some sort of integrity

question there and it had to compromise the entire draw.

And then within about what, 10, 15 minutes after the draw was completed they started

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