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 your host Matt Addison with Paul Gorse, Ian Doyle. to the latest Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

I'm your host Matt Addison with Paul Gorse, Ian Doyle and Joe Rimmer alongside

for a look back at Aetacomo Madrid, a preview of the weekend's tricky clash

away at West Ham United, and a look at the latest injury news with Roberto

Famino set for a spell on the sidelines.

Let's start with the Champions League though, where Liverpool confirmed their place in the last

16 with a couple of matches to spare on Wednesday and

Paul I'll come over to you first Liverpool obviously now have the option to rotate

against AC Milan and FC Porto that's probably the biggest thing with this result isn't it that the

Champions League now can take a little bit of a backseat for a few months.

Oh yeah 100% I was looking at the fixtures post-international break which started Arsel on November 20th.

I think between that game and the end of the year I think the pool played 12 times

so two of those are effectively dead rubbers which will be music to clops ears.

He's also about the kind of a cup quarter final in there which you'd expect it to be heavily rotated again.

So I suppose it's just about managing

managing the squad and picking and choosing horses for courses and so the injury for

Fomeno which I'm sure we'll come on to is not ideal in that sense but at a time when he's getting Tiago back for being your back I think he said today didn't

the mill there and Jones after the international break.

Jones is fine, but I think it might be one of those kind of concussion protocol things

where you have to sit out a couple of games. Looks as though he's going to be getting back numbers in key areas.

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