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 this week's Liverpool.com podcast. I'm your host, Matt Addison, Michael Plant and Richard Garnett are both with me.

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episode description box below. Don't worry, we're not just going to talk about that defeat at

Manchester City. We're going to look a little bit back across some of the other fixtures as well,

and a little bit forward as well towards Christmas, where it does look, at least on paper,

like Liverpool might have a few more

winnable games coming up than what they've just come off the back of. But, Michael, I'll start

with you in terms of the City game. Were City as good as Liverpool were bad? Were there any

surprises for you in that game? And how much of a difference do you think it made that Liverpool

came off the back of playing Villa and Rail Madrid? It was the third game in a week. I think that does make a bit of a difference

and Liverpool did look jaded, I don't think it's fair to say. Yeah, it might be given to that

kind of momentum, I suppose after three games, the, you've had the raise your levels against

Villa, Real and maybe just third time is a bit tough to do.

But, yeah, I mean, Van Dyde actually was asked that in the mix run after the match,

and he completely rejected that thought.

So in terms of the match, I mean, I wasn't really surprised in terms of how either side set up.

I suppose maybe the one surprise to me was that cities less physical midfield seemed to bully Liverpool's kind of stronger midfield.

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