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

Football bowed out of the Champions League midweek and now their focus must quickly switch to getting back into the competition next season.

Welcome to the latest Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

I'm Matt Addison and we'll get into both of those topics very shortly

with Paul Gourst, Joe Rimmer and David Lynch alongside me. Before of course we preview Monday night's

clash with Leeds United. Pick our teams and our score points at the end of the show.

But we'll go in chronological order first though and we'll begin with the midweek Champions

League exit Gorsy at the hands of Rail Madrid. The disappointment for me really was that

Liverpool played rather quite well. They got themselves into positions but they just could not

score a goal. Yeah familiar theme and I'm feel Anfield isn't it?

Liverpool not winning and not really, well not scoring,

but say this was probably the best he played,

certainly in 2021, possibly all season given the standard of the opposition, but just couldn't get the all-important

first breakthrough could be that would hopefully have led to the second one. And big chances wasn't Mohammed salad early on.

I think maybe that chance is, it might sound that would silly,

but I thought it possibly became a bit too early.

You know, I think there was only two minutes on the clock when he had that

massive chance and caught to our saves was his foot. The big one was right now and wasn't it just before

a half time and he was about eight yards out and somehow just plays it in the

I'm for a road end and I think I thought them for absolutely

flew out of the traps really and if you're watching from home I'm you wouldn't have really known that it was a game without fans there because

Liverpool really did come out and they were ready for a fight but without supporters in there to just kind of push them on when the energy levels dipped and dropped a little bit.

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