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 an impromptu Blood Red Podcast that the the Reds march into the quarter finals of the

Champions League for a 3-1 victory over by Munich at the Aleons Arena last night.

I'm Joe Rimmer and I'm joined by Conodun and Kiva O'Neill here in the studio and James Pierce is live on the phone.

Hello all. Hello hello hello. Good afternoon. Hello Joe. Hi James.

Right we'll start with you James you're you've had a few hours sleep now. Let's look back on what was a wonderful

European night for Liverpool yesterday. Just tell us all about it, James,

tell us what the experience was like what the

Alaines of Reno was like and what that result means to Liverpool.

Yeah it was just an absolutely sensation or night for the club wasn't it I think

the Alaines Arena is one of the really iconic

grounds in European football and to go there and win and not just win but to do it in that kind of fashion was was massively

impressive you know I don't think you wouldn't say it was a perfect performance I thought the first half was pretty scrappy, but what

Liverpool did do is dig in. And then what impressed me most was the second half, the way that they

absolutely boss that game and I think we saw

the value of that European experience that they they picked up over the course of

last season en route to Kyiv and yeah the to be honest

the buying fans around me were were absolutely shell-shocked to be honest I mean once

once the third goal went in it was like the they were doing a fire drill because they empty pretty fast and

you know they're not used to being humiliated like that on their own patch and yeah there was there were Liverpool fans actually

dotted all around that stadium you saw when the when the third goal went in

you saw people jumping up all all around and yeah just a fantastic

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