Blood Red: The real problem in Liverpool's defence - and why we're still worried about Naby Keita

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce is fresh back from the London Stadium and he joins host Joe Rimmer, Paul Gorst and Caoimhe O'Neill for the first Blood Red podcast of the week.James looks back on what he believes was the worst performance of table-topping Liverpool's season so far and, given the 1-1 draw at West Ham followed another at home to Leicester, he wonders whether it is time to be concerned.Gorsty was concerned by Roberto Firmino's display against the Hammers and believes it highlighted the paucity of attacking options at Jurgen Klopp's disposal.The Liverpool manager is certainly short of bodies at the back and Joe attempts to get to the bottom of the 'problem' in defence.Is it because certain players aren't good enough? Who in particular has been badly missed? And why was Nathaniel Clyne allowed to leave?James answers that latter question and whether he is still worried by Naby Keita.But, with the Reds still three points clear at the top, is everyone being too negative? Caoimhe thinks so.Spirits will certainly be lifted if Everton do their neighbours a favour and beat Manchester City at Goodison on Wednesday.But do the panel think the Blues can do that?The silence is deafening... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy 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.
0:09.0	Hello there and welcome to the latest Liverpool Echo Blood Red podcast. I'm Joe Rimmis standing
0:13.8	in for Ian Doyle today who's having a well-earned day off and I'm joined by two
0:17.6	fine young journalists and James Pierce. James, you were down in the
0:21.8	London Stadium last night.
0:23.0	How are you feeling?
0:24.0	Not too bad, thanks Joe, yourself.
0:25.0	I'm good, thank you.
0:26.0	Alongside him, I've got the tour man, Paul Gorse, how are you poor?
0:30.0	Hello Joe, yeah, fine, yeah.
0:31.0	Good. And the Eko's newest signing, sorry, the Echo Sports
0:34.0	that's newest signing. Kiva O'Neil.
0:36.0	Hello, how are you? Good, thanks. How many, how many pods have you done with us now?
0:39.5	Three or four? Two, two. Two. Two. All right now he's been counting poor yeah no
0:45.4	totally in there you know listen that well it's the first one I've shared
0:50.4	through you so welcome welcome to this podcast. James will start with you
0:55.1	London Stadium. A pretty poor performance from Liverpool. Do you think that's the
1:00.9	worst performance of the season so far?
1:03.0	Yeah, I think so in terms of being so collectively poor in pretty much all departments, I think I
1:10.0	sat there watching anything and I just couldn't remember the last time a Liverpool team just made
1:16.1	so many unforced errors and it was infuriating to watch because you almost felt especially in the
1:20.9	second half where West Ham never really you know they
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