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 Liverpool Blood Red Podcast. I'm Connor Dunn and this is my first time debuting as host and hopefully it goes better

today than did for the youngsters last night.

Joining me is full-time correspondent James James.

Not too bad thanks for Connor yourself.

I'm very well thank you if not a little nervous for doing this.

And you Theo Squires, how are you?

I'm good, cheers here giving you a nice survey touch.

Yeah, exactly, that's how it goes.

So I think we probably best start off by dissecting the wolves game last night.

Obviously, a lot's been said about Clops team selection

and we'll come to onto that a little bit later

but James what did you make of the game? How did you think they did? How did you think that the team played?

Well it wasn't great, was it? I think I must admit I was surprised he made quite as many changes I thought I thought

there'd be six seven maybe eight but you know nine changes and then you know obviously I think what hurt

Liverpool a lot in terms of costing the tie was the fact that Lofram went off so

early on because I think that that then changed the dynamic didn't it in terms of I think suddenly you looked at that back for after what was it six minutes and you thought

Hang I minute there's two teenagers there that have never played at this level before you You've got a Brazilian midfielder who's never played centre back before

and a blundering left back who's out of contract in the summer

and is on the verge of leaving the club

and a goalkeeper behind them who hadn't played a game of football for four months.

So, you know, I think Lovren's injury hurt Liverpool, you know, it will hurt Liverpool going forward, but it also hurt Liverpool on the night because, you know it'll hurt Liverpool going forward but it also hurt Liverpool on the night because

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