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

Hello, you're listening to the latest Liverpool Echo Blood Red podcast yet another

debrief after a defeat for the Reds this time at the hands of League Leaders Arsenal.

Theo Squires and David Lynch are both with me. We'll touch on some positives later on but there we'll start with the obvious

eight Premier League games played. Six of those Liverpool will drop points in and of course in the

league at least it's Manchester City up next so it could be an interesting week for

Liverpool.

Um you've been quite diplomatic with that haven't yeah?

It's been painful recently and it just feels it's getting worse and worse.

Yeah, Man City, like Liverpool and current form will ship for against them and get

absolutely battered.

Four, that's ambitious.

You reckon it be like five, six,

yeah.

Yeah, it's gonna be a painful week.

You're hoping for some sort of reaction against Rangers on Wednesday night,

that even then as we saw last week, that's not going to be the answer because we thought,

oh, they might have found a formation that could do a job against Arsenal, and they were just so sluggish and slow and poor defensively.

We'll get to the positives in a bit which will be three quarters of the front

for. But yeah it's just like this was supposed to be a chance of a

Liverpool to send out a statement for minutes against Arsenal to say we're back.

We're not going to be entitled contention this year too far off, but we are real

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