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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Blood Red: Sadio Mane decline, Steven Gerrard success and Liverpool’s Champions League priority

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As Liverpool fell to a sixth straight defeat at Anfield their Champions League qualification hopes have been left in the balance. Join Guy Clarke, Ian Doyle, Matt Addison and Marcus Banks to look back on the loss to Fulham before previewing Wednesday’s Champions League tie with RB Leipzig. Sadio Mane’s lack of form, the Reds’ shot-shy approach at Anfield and prioritising the Champions League are all debated. So too is Steven Gerrard’s SPL success at Rangers before getting into the panel’s team selection and match predictions. Enjoy.Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCJoin our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

0:08.0

It's the Blood Red Podcast, courtesy of the Liverpool Echo, I'm Guy Clark.

0:12.0

Welcome along, six straight Anfield defeats

0:14.8

potentially seven points off the pace in the race for a top-for finish and

0:19.6

Liverpool dropping to 8th alongside me to reactor Liverpool's loss to Fulham and preview

0:24.7

Wednesday's Champions League second leg with Harvey Leipzig we've got our

0:28.5

chief Liverpool writer Ian Doyle Matt Addison and Marcus Banks.

0:32.4

Doily you said on Friday the season was over Doyle, Matt Addison and Marcus Banks.

0:32.6

Doyle, you said on Friday the season was over,

0:35.4

you've been proven right, haven't you?

0:37.2

Yeah, I think was over.

0:38.9

So, you know, everybody laughed and suddenly, oh look, they're all right again.

0:42.3

I mean, we'll obviously

0:43.0

we'll come onto the team selection as well where I wasn't a million miles off was I so

0:48.1

yeah just want to say hello to Marx's cat again by the way okay let's just get that out the way straight. Oh no, I ran off now. Anyway, yeah, going back to going back to Liverpool, no, it was just more of the same. What more can we say? I mean, we'll have to stretch this podcast out because we just kind of saying the same thing over and over and over again, you know, so

1:07.5

Made it Fulham school that was the end of the game and everybody knew that I think I think the interesting thing is that I think with that team

1:14.0

selection clubs basically said and with his comments that he said on Friday as

1:17.7

well to the to the echo and the national press is that he's given up on the

1:22.2

top four he's never come out and say that he's given up on the top four.

1:23.0

He's never come out and say I've actually given up on the top four.

1:25.6

In fact, he said that, he said, didn't he were too big a club to do that.

1:29.6

But the long, you know, as long as living through in the Champions League, that's the priority and all the team selections will be based around keeping plays fresh for that or giving them confidence going into those games, which hopefully they'll have at least two more of them after the game on Wednesday. I just think

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