Hello, this is international football commentator Derek Ray, and you're listening to the Ranks FC podcast.

Hello, R Squad, and welcome to a belated Champions League takeaway here on Rank's FC.

Taking a look back at what went down on Wednesday.

Briefly, I think we're going to shimmy through those games a little bit,

but also then to take a

little look at the table and what tells us and a couple of wider trends i want to dig a little bit

into as well my name is jack collins and i will be your host day and it's only me with you today

dean's had a little bit of bad news from a family perspective so he is just dealing with a couple of things. So I'm sending all of the love in the world. I hope you'll join me sending love to Dean and to the Jones family as well. But it's just me. So I'm going to work through a couple of these and give you a quick thoughts. I'm going to start with Marseille, Liverpool three. Big win for Liverpool, an important important win for Liverpool and one that they deserved

as well although I think that some of the reactions to it have been perhaps a tad over the top in

terms of the effusiveness of their praise I mean look it was an interesting change of shape from

honest slot it was more of a sort of either a four two two two or a four four diamonds, depending on what the kind of state of the game was and the certain changes that were made. But I thought it would allow them to do some interesting things. I think we're seeing much more from Frimpong and Kirk has in this shape, both fullbacks able to get forward and make things happen. And Vietz being in that advanced position can then pull strings. I think that Sober Slide being able to play as number 10 or number

eight, give forward and make things happen. And Vietz being in that advanced position can then pull strings. I think that Sober Sly being able to play as a number 10 or a number 8 gives you that ability to just shift the shape of the midfield a little bit so that they can go from a Gravenberg at the base and then Soberstly and McAllister in front and Vietz and the 10. And then Sobustai can get forward in points where Liverpool are dominating in the game,

kind of change it into that 4-2-2-2, which is, I think, an interesting thing.

I also think it gets the best out of Mo Salah in this system because I thought he was excellent.

And with Sobastai behind him and the way that he covers that ground, getting into that right-hand

side and making sure that Sal covers that ground getting into that right-hand side and making

sure that sala has friends over there effectively people who are around him one to combine with

and two to make sure that there's not kind of overloads especially with frumpong getting forward so

much i think it works quite smartly so sallar i thought was excellent across most of this game

and also i think that liverpool is just better without cody hackpo in the side at the moment something we talked about on quite smartly. So Salar, I thought, was excellent across most of this game. And also, I think

that Liverpool are just better without Cody Hackpo in the side at the moment. Something we talked about

on Patreon and something that's come up with a couple of our Liverpool supporting patrons is

...